New and Improved Wake

[ragboy]

Ragboy, keep us informed on what you do. We went up to Ice House this last weekend and I wakesurfed for the first time. It was fun but we just don't have the wake set up correctly. The wake that you have seems to be much better. I will post pictures a little later this week when things have calm down (cleaning of camping gear).

I will. I am taking it slow, because I just don't want to throw a system in here, but do it right, and make sure it gives me what I want. I have been out 3 times now with the 750, and have a pretty good feel for it. On friday night, I took a few kids (my diehards) and we slept out on the boat to ride the butter in the AM. One of the great things about Oroville, even full blown Saturday in the summer, I didn't see another ski or wakeboard boat come in our cove until 9:45am. We had butter til 10.

Anyway, I didn't have my whole family, so while 750 was plenty with my whole family, it lacked a bit when just a few of us.

So I am ordering 2 FlyHigh v-drive sacs (400# ea) for the rear lockers, and the integrated bow sac, and an extra pump. My plan is to fill the back up all the way, and then experiment with the front, to get the right balance. When the balance is right, my boat seems to handle almost as well as unweighted, and the surfwake is long and deep. I thought I would have to play with weighting down one side more or the other, but so far, I don't think so. As long as I have enough people on board to list it over, It seems to work great with weighting down the whole boat. This makes it GREAT to transition from which side to surf, and to wakeboarding. Since I won't be moving weight from side to side with my ballast tanks, it seems I will just fill them up once, and empty them once per outing. Even manually, this is not much of a hassle at all, especially 3 teenagers on my crew.

So I may opt to build a system in the fall, or I may not. I may just buy extra pumps, and hardwire them to the bag locations with a switch locally for ease of use.

[Moki]

I am using a custom sac that is in my rear locker and no weight up front. I have the integrated bow sac but have not tried that yet. I plan on trying it later this week and see what it does for my wake.

[Domsz06]

i might look into that bow sac, as opposed to my lead weight. Seems it might be even better, and bigger of a surf wake

[G-MONEY]

Check out this wake.............

[da.bell]

Check out this wake.............

Is that your boat?

[G-MONEY]

no,
I wish my boat produced a wake like that.......

[ragboy]

Is that your boat?

Where is that from? That is one LONG wake.

[da.bell]

no,
I wish my boat produced a wake like that.......

Okay, it is Tige???? Come on G-Money.... Don't have us ask 20 questions to get the answer......

[G-MONEY]

The pic is from WW is a BU 247

[G-MONEY]

10.6 MPH
1500 LBS total + maybe 3 people
No wedge

[da.bell]

The weight is properly placed. Nice wake...

[Domsz06]

that wake is FAT!! geeze I wanna wake like that! Oh wait I had one similar when I had all my people in the boat. Man I wish I had taken a pic.


Also the camera angle there has a lot to do with it lookig so big

[da.bell]

Very true. The wake is about 2 feet or less but it's the length that I was amazed at.

[dogbert]

i might look into that bow sac, as opposed to my lead weight. Seems it might be even better, and bigger of a surf wake

Or better yet, how about some waterproof amplifiers?

[dogbert]

Check out this wake.............

Sweet!