Breakin' in the New Wake9 2010 Tige RZ2

[ragboy]

700 up front, total.

The wake was too steep, and too short, even with all that weight up front, because it had 1850 on the back. So we kept putting taps down until it was good, and good thing 1 worked. No where to go after that.

[samw]

That was amazing!!! Great riders.

[ragboy]

ok, so lets get to my boy Sean. I have to admit, I lean towards surf style, so that was our first thought with the wake, and so we had to adjust for Sean. I felt bad, so extended him invite so he could start with it JUST how HE wants.

Anyway, we didn't move any wait. Dennis just got up and moved more forward, and to the center of the boat. If he moved all the way to bow, we got a rooster, so he had to sit on the observer seat, towards the driver. Am I remembering that right dennis? Correct me if I am wrong. I stayed in the fat boy seat.

I will have to check video later, but got to see my first 1260 (maybe 1080, I don't remember) from the boat. Sean nailed it.

You can see the wake is knocked down a bit, and still clean.



Shuv





Sean was landing most of his stuff.



Sean did some ollies on the wave, that were very cool.



Sean doing a bottom turn, reversed.



Another shuv, this video is going to be sick.





Sean got his hair wet, so removed his bandana. Frickin pretty boy. ;-)



I think this was Sean landing a shuv, but I loved the pick, especially with the WS logo on his shirt OVER his PFD.



Hey, skimmers can grab too? ;-)





Sean spinning. One of the things I love about Sean's spins, is that he is mostly standing. Some skimmers look like they are almost sitting on the board. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I just think it looks cooler when more upright.



Sean pulled off at least 3 rotations and landed it, (1080) 2x. It may have been 1260, don't remember, Sean can clarify.

Sean fell forward once, and decided to dive in and body surf.



It caught me by surprise because he didn't just die and sink. He actually rode it out a bit, the wave had a lot of push. It was pretty funny. Sean has great dismounts.



Can't leave out the gun show.



Good wake pic.





OK, now, this is where it gets ugly. Sean likes to spray the boat. Bre doesn't like getting her camera wet. Bre has something like 15 tattoos on her hind quarters of the men she has laid to waste for doing this. I believe she is getting #16.



Now you know why Sean only had 1 set. ;-)

Go here for the entire set of pictures, in a slide show:

[Duncan]

700 up front, total.

The wake was too steep, and too short, even with all that weight up front, because it had 1850 on the back. So we kept putting taps down until it was good, and good thing 1 worked. No where to go after that.

That seems to suggest there is some semi-defined relationship between TAPS setting and weight. Reduce the weight a little and add one TAPS.

Would be cool to be able to determine rules of thumb for weight and TAPS. (e.g., 1850/700 TAPS 1 ; 1200/300 TAPS 4; etc). The problem is number of factors (back weight, front weight, back/front ratio, TAPS) and objective criteria of the wave.

From what you describe above, the TAPS setting may be more dependent on the back/front ratio than the absolute amount of weight in the boat or in the back of the boat (e.g., TAPS 1 for 2.6 ratio (i.e., 1850/700); TAPS 4 for 4.0 ratio (i.e., 1200/300)).

This has already convinced me of the necessity of taking out the front horseshoe bag and replacing it with two separate bags, one on each side. Good off season project.

[ragboy]

I would def say its the ratio. Taps down is like more weight up front, and vise versa, may not be exact, but close.

[ragboy]

Don't forget to check out Sean's clothing company, he makes some great stuff and everyone at the NW open was buying it.

http://www.wakeshredders.com/

Sean also rides for Inland Surfer, on the Inland Surfer Moss.

Here is a great picture of Sean and his crew on his beautiful Centurion Enzo 230 with the switchblade.

[ragboy]

Dennis corrected me, the skim wake was made by dennis moving ALL THE WAY forward on the surf side. So that was about 1000 lbs up front, and 1800 in back.

[Guma]

With that much weight in the back have you seen the swim platform have any adverse affect on the wave?

I know they did redesign the platform on the RZ2, but in our 22Ve we have seen where too much weight in the back and the platform cuts into the wave and with even more weight the whole platform seems to squash the wave.

[ragboy]

Some supplemental pics, I took this one when we "unboxed" our RZ2 in a target parking lot at 10pm in Seattle. It shows the new 2010 Swim deck is filled in on the bottom, almost no lip, so keeps the wake, especially the transition, clean. Sanger and Centurion already have this, but those with previous tiges will find this interesting.



This images shows the water line and video camera position on the RZ2. Just a BIT past the rubrail.



And just to show no tricks, this was taken with my iphone at face level, not laying down, from the ballast boy seat.



Lastly, remember that the tige threw a great wake, with JUST stock ballast, no need to go nuts to get a good wake. I don't want people to think you have to overload your boat to surf well. Here is a video that shows the RZ2 stock.

[evil0ne]

So...do you miss the 409? I'm guessing it isn't worth the $ but I want to hear your experience.

[ragboy]

No, I don't miss the 409. We did have some cavitation with that monster weight. But we will only do that weight like once a year. It only cavitated when we got up to about 15 mph.

I think when we get to our "daily" surf weight, the prop will not need changing, and the 343 is plenty. I LOVE the quiet clean engine.

[fog_ducker]

Awsome thread Ragboy!!! How did you stay fully automated? Thanks in advance, and like some of the other guys were saying, you probably just saved me 10's of hours in dickin' around to dial in my wake!

[ragboy]

Its not automated yet, our goal is to have a daily setup, with the sacs in rear on top, just bigger than stock, but plumbed.

[fog_ducker]

This is exactly what I want to do. Have you talked to Tige about releasing an upgrade for the touch to allow for custom sacs to be filled within profiles? How are you planning on keeping it fully automated?

[ragboy]

The current touch setup will allow you to adjust timers for bigger sacs. Not to mention it is firmware upgradeable.