Whispers
A round up of news, gossip, rum
ours, happ’s, miss-happ’s, the im
portant, the unimportant, overheard conversations and updates
.
Malibu are back in New Zealand, well Christchurch,
Dunedin and Wellington to be exact! The car dealer
giants at Armstrong Motor Group have taken up the
role of importer and distributor, meaning we can now
get Malibu boats without ordering from Aussie! In
their own word’s ‘we will be supplying the full range
of wakeboard, waterski and performance boats, we
will also have a full range of parts and accessories
as well as a fully equipped service department.’
If you’re interested check out their facebook page by searching Malibu Boats NZ.
A double whammy on boat news this edition, and
all from the same source! The Armstrong Motor
Group are also introducing Axis Wake boats to New
Zealand. If you haven’t heard of Axis you should
have, they make top quality wakeboard boats for
under NZ $100k, and have managed to attract
legends such as Keith Lyman and Randall Harris
to their team! - Check out their website at www.
axiswake.com
We will keep you posted as to when the first bunch
of these arrive in New Zealand.
As a follow up to our question last edition ‘does
anybody know what is going on with Jstar?’ It
turns out that the Jstar distributor did know what
was going on! Jstar has undergone a pretty big restructure that saw them drop some of their biggest
international riders, including Jeff Weatherall and
Keith Lidberg. The move has shifted the majority
of their focus to where the