Whaler Sport Jet comments

MikeF-NH · 07-04-2014, 07:04 AM

did some quick googling on that boat for you and found lots of negatives. You might want to google around abit before taking the plundge. Here are a couple that I read:

"Memebers of my family had one, a avid whaler fanatic (has owned nothing but whalers). He about had a major mental breakdown in sticking up for this (15' rage jet boat)boat and the factory before giving in and relizing the boat was never going to work as expected. It has a design flaw (acknowledge by a factory tech). The motors were overheating and had difficulting getting on plane. There is a reason this whaler resale is so low and they were dropped after a year or two.

He got credit towards (not much mind you) dauntlass with a new type of motor called optimax. Didn't fish for a year in his own boat due to optimax problems.

He now owns a 18 dautlass with a honda motor and a honda kicker.

Not everything "whaler" has a clean reputation. I recommend you look at a different boat."

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"tubing and skiing great. But fishing, or even docking were a nightmare. Once you cut power to a jet, you essentially have no steering (rudder). So you're either under significant thrust or floating - no in between. "

07-04-2014, 07:04 AM	#3
MikeF-NH Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 318 Thanks: 2 Thanked 120 Times in 80 Posts	did some quick googling on that boat for you and found lots of negatives. You might want to google around abit before taking the plundge. Here are a couple that I read: "Memebers of my family had one, a avid whaler fanatic (has owned nothing but whalers). He about had a major mental breakdown in sticking up for this (15' rage jet boat)boat and the factory before giving in and relizing the boat was never going to work as expected. It has a design flaw (acknowledge by a factory tech). The motors were overheating and had difficulting getting on plane. There is a reason this whaler resale is so low and they were dropped after a year or two. He got credit towards (not much mind you) dauntlass with a new type of motor called optimax. Didn't fish for a year in his own boat due to optimax problems. He now owns a 18 dautlass with a honda motor and a honda kicker. Not everything "whaler" has a clean reputation. I recommend you look at a different boat." AND "tubing and skiing great. But fishing, or even docking were a nightmare. Once you cut power to a jet, you essentially have no steering (rudder). So you're either under significant thrust or floating - no in between. "