j-me and i went to atlantic city boat show over the weekend. on the way there we were behind a pick-up with a ski in the bed. it was a yamaha 800 TZ. have anyone ever seen one of these? i've never heard of it. it looked very odd.

TZ-was prefix lettering designating roadrace motorcycles in the early to mid 70's.That is odd unless it was an old roadracer that put TZ-porting specs on his ski,and\or put on cloned stripes & lettering from that era.Was it yellow with 2 inch black stripes?

this thing appeared to look very very new. not more than 3 or so years old. very well taken care of. it did have some stickers/decals that were japanese. maybe it was imported? any other comments

The bottom of the hull was radically different from what I have ever seen. It almost had a keel due to a front to rear semi circular "relief" on either side of the hull centerline. This pattern also transitioned into the ride plate.

yeah, what j-me said. i found a yamaha site from australia with a 800tz on it

Makes me wonder if theres any extra performance specs on the engine?Probably not.BTW what color was it?

maybe the color scheme of like say a 99 gp. like the blue and white .

i just found a site. it is a japan model. 110 horse. it's called a yamaha mj-800tz . mj stands for marine jet. yamaha marine jet 800tz. funny cause the site i found it on has a link to riva. it's a japanese site. also found it on surf and snow

Post the link.

It is the waveblaster that never made it here. I think they came out in Japan in 1998.

http://www.sea-c.com/used/mj/800tz_50.html

thats exactly the one.well there is one alive and well somewhere in jersey

I gotta have one now.

Some guy had two of them on eBay about 2-3 weeks ago. They were fully built he was asking around $4500 for each I think.

hey ed how have ya been beings you found that i was wondering if you dould translate that page for us

no problem benny
it says

bing bong ping pong
oh me so horny
5 dolla make you holla

my pride still hurts from being out-ran by my own XLL by a 20something nurse from north of the mason/dixon line.

thats funny ed yea i remember that she wont be skiing this year she is pregnant and due june 21st but ill make one of those rallys this year hopefully

Any one find out about how to get one of these skis man that looks like a cool ski to play on I know I want one.

They are slow & handle poorly,the one on ebay was at the world finals & had twin pipes & everything else you could think of,it got smoked by HXs & Blaster 1s.

The ski your talking about is a European Blaster 800. They have been over here for sometime, but I dont believe they were sold overhere in the USA.
The 800 that I know of that was raced at the World Finals got beat because it had some motor problems. This is what happens when you custom make some pipes and other stuff for a ski like this one. Larger and more stable than a Blaster and a bit faster.

Mick