I pretty much hate jetskis.

Where in the world is Joe Merchant?

Abuse any boat and that's what you end up with.

The Spark is the cheapest, nastiest Jetski on the market. One dealer told me they were designed to last only one season and to then get the owner to upgrade to a newer one.

Get a Yamaha. (I hate Jetskis too).

Unfortunately the spark is the ONLY newish jet ski that will fit in the garage on Lazzara's.

When a 2 stroke has water in the motor, after you turn it over without spark plugs and get as much out as possible. loosen all of the spark plugs and then thread them 2 whole turns in by hand, then connect the coils to them and get the motor running. Enough air will bypass the plug threads to allow the water out, while allowing the engine to run well enough to suck all of the water out of it.

Trade it in now for a new one!

Even the more well known brands should be traded in every 12 to 18 mo when used on a charter boat.

We prefer the adult version of jet skis, Jet Ribs.

We don't have any jet skis on Berilda. One of the selling points when I accepted the job!

I hate JetSkis too, but loved SeaDoos! This is a collage that hangs on my office wall reminding me of good times.

I used to do the same thing with a Pro VXR Yamaha with a bunch of work done, back in the day. I bet you went through lots of motor mounts, I know I did!

But yeah, in a charter environment I'd replace them every 2 years or sooner and call it the cost of doing business

A Spark came with our current boat, sold it immediately to my neighbor, his boy destroyed in 2 months. I hate jet skis too. They rent them here and come thru our bayou in covey's up to maybe 15 at high speeds thru no wake zones. Did I say "I hate jet skis"? Probably would have give an arm or leg for one when I was a teenager. ( had they made them) lol

Reading through this thread I'm seeing a lot of people with misplaced "hate".

The jetskis aren't the problem... it looks to me like you all hate jetski riders and the dumb things they do.

The constant maintenance of the jet ski's is the problem. If you're not using them enough to go through an entire tank of fuel with them, at least every 6 weeks or less, you are going to have issues (and nobody ever does). Even then you are going to have a lot more more issues than a 4 stroke outboard as a whole.

Motor mounts were consumables!

i dont typically get bothered too much but jetskis/waverunners when i am on the water. if they want to jump my wake as i cruise about it does no harm to me so i let them have their fun. hell when i ride my dads new yamaha vxr i like to jump boat wakes too. i dont typically feel endangered by them following, never have one get close enough that i felt there was a chance of a collision.

A wave runner jumped our wake then past us on our port side...the girl fell off the back of the wave runner maybe 75 ft. directly in front of our boat...the only thing that saved her was we were on plane had the synchronizer on and pulled stb throttle back... the port slave lagged and steered the boat to stb...I watched her go by within2 ft. of the port side...the guy picked her up and took off. Scared the crap out us...she will never know how lucky she is to be alive...had I "not" been using the synchronizer it would have been impossible to react quick enough to steer around her...too many incompetent people operating jet ski's.