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Whoop whoop. Yes I pulled the trigger. Joined the forum. And drooled all night thinking about my new boat. You know the monkey said when he got his tail chopped off? It won’t be long now. Whoop whoop

Let me see what I actually have when the boat arrives and I'll let ya know. As far as the pm thing I think it's because I'm not a supporting member. The sight and members have changed through the year's. I only hang around because of some of the guy's like you and Nick,Rhunt drNate ect. that go back through the year's.

https://youtu.be/-0_nVxsuXTE Amazing day in Virginia today!

Had similar thought.

11.8 MPH for us. The 16's just surf better than the 17 + model years. If they still surfed as good I would have just bought another one and saved 30k. Love love loved our 16 238.

Your Helper needs his boat done now

I sat in that very boat yesterday! It’s pretty sweet! Hope he enjoys it!

Still a little cold here to be out surfing but My buddy just pulled the trigger on a 257 at the Denver boat show. His kids look excited now, wait until they see the wave on her!! Poor guy will only have to wait until April as long he doesn't mind cold water

Revival, mods and more to come...

The question of a 2018 Ri237 vs. a 2016-2017 is one we have gotten a fair bit. The 50% improvement in fuel efficiency that the factory is stating I believe is a 2018 Ri237 vs. a 2016 Ri237. In 2017 they changed the shaft angle which improved the fuel efficiency by probably 25% (because of the new propeller options) and then another 25% improvement with Opti-V. If the current Ri237 / Ri257 has Opti-V 2.0 then the Ri217 (all years) is basically Opti-V 1.5. The 217 is more fuel efficient than previous Ri237 hulls though not quite as efficient as the 2018 Opti-V hull on the Ri237 and Ri257. Though we haven't hooked a Diacom up to a 2016 or 2017 Ri237 I can state from personal experience at Surf Events that it is still definitely more fuel efficient than a Nautique G series or Malibu MXZ. When we ran a 2016 Ri237 at the Utah Surf Fest it was the only boat that could get through the whole day on a single tank of fuel and all of the other boats had to refuel about 2/3 through the day despite having a similar size gas tank.