Axis Wakeboard Boat Forum

Depends on the demo boat and who has it. I have had some real creampuff demo boats that had less than 20 hours on them. And then I have seen some demo boats that are super slammed everyday of the week.

I always tell people to break in the engine before they go full loaded with ballast. Just does not make sense to load down a 50-90K boat in the first few hours. Take a few booze cruise or two and get that engine ready for some surfing.

If you are keeping your boat for years to come what is a few trips to the lake for some R&R?

Compare the PCM and Indmar break-in procedures. I believe both manufactures use the same engine block between respective models but they recommend vastly different break-in procedures. If I had a formal break-in procedure it would be more similar to PCMs than Indmars. Following Indmars procedures I wouldn't have be able to get the boat to plane for the first 2 hours.

Where I live and boat I may get three months of usable weather, that's 12 weekends or around 24 days not including vacation time if I can get away. That's not a lot of time. I plan to use the boat for its intended purpose from the beginning which requires the boat to make a wave at between 10 and 30 mph, or 2500 - 4000 rpm.