After hearing about Jonny and Louise taking wakeboarding lessons in an earlier blog here's my brother and I wakeboarding from the back of a Ballistic 7.8m off Southsea Seafront. Powered by an Evinrude Etec 250, there was no shortage of pace..
Wakeboarding Behind RIB
And yes, you've guessed it it's not me managing to get up, it's my brother I'm helming the Ballistic RIB (not taking the photos at the same time I should add!) in fairly decent conditions a few hundred yards off the beach towards Eastney.
The Ballistic 7.8 proved to be a fantastic RIB for watersports big enough to take a gang of us out for the day and keep all our kit safe and dry stable enough for relaxing off the beach in comfort and easily powerful enough to get all of us (bar 1) out of the water each time. And, despite being a fairly meaty outboard, the etec was never that thirsty for a day on the water of mixed use.
Anyway, here's to saving few more to buy the latest model from Ballistic which looks like its a corker!
There are plenty of new features on the Ballistic RIB which I love - the design update also brings then RIBs to the head of the pack in terms of on the water style which is important when buying with your heart as most people looking for a RIB for sale do!
The Evinrude etec is a peach of an engine and as far as I am aware remains unchanged - this is a good thing - I had nothing but power, reliability and relative economy from mine.