Which is the best ski for reliability.

Seems you guys think Yamaha are all the go, jetski safari hear had 20 of them and one by one at exactly 4000 hours they blew up............

I dont know whats everyones opinion on Kawasaki LX 160

I have never heard of anyone clocking up 4000 on a jet ski ! I believe this is a jet ski fishing forum so a lot of the time you are fishing not chalking up mega hours I think that stat is probably useless in the grand scheme of normal usage.

Cheers Hoot

I agree Mr Hooter... we spent heaps of time on the water in the last year which clocked up 120hrs. So if my ski can do 4000 that is a huge amount of fish we can catch
I will get Andrew to talk to Yamaha NZ tomorrow and see what stats they come up with.. Lets hope 4000!!!!!

The R1 engine is straight out of the R1 motorcycle so working through those numbers and assuming an average speed on the motor bike of 70kph; 4000hrs @ 70kph = 280,000km's or 175,000 miles!!!! 50,000kms would be high mileage on a sports bike like the R1 and using the same formula, thats equivalent to 700hrs. I'm currently at 15.4 hours...not too worried yet!!

I agree 4000 hours is a long time on your ass, I gues it was a big shock for me to see 20 jetskis all die at the same time. All on 4000 hours. For a comercial operation 4000 hours is not alot. Anyway I jo keen to get a jetski and get into some adventures : ) You guys over in NZ got some dam fine snapper fishing.

Sure have got good Snapper fishing here over the Summer, what is best targeted in Aus?

Well I have a 18 ft outshore boat,,,,, I havent gone out on Jetski fishing yet..........but probabley Sweet Lip, Dolphine Fish, Wahoo, Spanish Mackrel, Snapper............but not as good as the snapper in NZ wholey crap you guys got it good.

Lots of small black marline around but I wouldnt target them.

Red Emperor the ultimate Aussie deep water fish ! Fantastic eating grows to over 20kg ! caught along the Queensland coast from Cairns Down to Mooloolaba.

Oh yeah Reds...............that doesnt count but cause its not off a jetski ha ha..................dam fine fish im jelious.

Get on that jetski fella's and bring one of those big boys in and then tell me what you think of jetskifishing!!!
They are impressive fish... worth stuffing one for the mantle piece
Might have to consider coming over for a fish!!

Got to admit... that is rather impressive guys!!