Got out of college in spring of '03, married in late summer '03, found this 2001 Malibu Sportster that fall/winter. I was in the boat before the tow vehicle crowd..... borrowed my parents old full sized van for the first year. It had no A/C, the lake was a 90 mi round trip most weekends, but we did pull it about 1100 mi. that summer w/ the van too. Fun, fun! Really enjoyed that boat. It had the 325 Hp EFI motor and made for a quick boat with the light hull. I will never forget I pulled a 235+ lb guy deep water start BF start and never needed full throttle, his MC 205 was full throttle from the time he said go to the time he dropped back in.
Spring of '07 we pulled it out to the lake and were setting up our campsite. We set our 14 mo. old in the boat to keep her contained and with the low freeoboard we saw her fully looking over the side and decided that probably wouldn't be the safest on the water. Just happened that some friends were moving that had a 2002 Wakesetter LXi that they didn't want to take with them so we moved into that.