2027 Nautique Super Air Nautique GS22

The Super Air Nautique GS is for the family that wants a genuine competition-grade wave without buying a 25-footer to get it. This new 2027, stock #5035, measures 22 feet on a 100-inch beam, and it is the most practical boat in the Nautique surf lineup.

The specification that decides how good a surf boat is turns out not to be horsepower but ballast, and the GS carries up to 2,900 lbs of it with the supplemental tanks filled. On a hull with a 4,900 lb dry weight, that is a huge proportional load, and it is what presses the boat down into the water to open a long, clean, pushy wave rather than a short steep one. Engine options run up to 570 horsepower from the ZZ8R, with torque figures from 405 through 600 lb-ft depending on how the boat is built, including a diesel option. Low-end torque is what actually matters here, because the engine has to lift a fully ballasted boat onto plane and pull a rider up without straining.

The practical numbers are just as well judged. Fifteen-person capacity and 2,200 lbs of payload mean you are not doing arithmetic before inviting another family along. A 59-gallon tank covers a full day of sets. The 32-inch draft is worth noting on the Lake of the Ozarks specifically, where you spend real time idling into shallow coves and easing up to a beach. And at 4,900 lbs dry it tows behind an ordinary half-ton truck, so the boat is not tied to a single ramp or a single lake.

Being a current Nautique, the technology is the same as the larger boats: rider profiles stored at the helm, GPS speed control for repeatable waves set after set, and a tower with rotating board racks.

Why this is the right boat: the GS gives you the wave without the length, the weight, or the entry price of the flagship. It fits an ordinary slip and an ordinary trailer, it is easy to handle in a crowded cove, and it is the boat your kids learn to surf behind and are still riding when they are landing tricks.

It is new and on the floor at Kelly's Port, 3545 Osage Beach Pkwy. in Osage Beach. We have been a family-owned marina on the Lake of the Ozarks since 1977, with our indoor showroom open year-round and our own service, storage, and gas dock on site. Call 573.348.3888 to see stock #5035 or to get on the water behind it.