Floating wedge on a tige 24v- Transom strength?

[NICKYPOO]

I have to say, I've never surfed a wedge I liked. Although, I've never been in or behind one that was sacked out.

[duffymahoney]

The best waves out either have wedges or switchblades. My favorite wave is Stanley's 247 sacked out running a power wedge. They do have their drawbacks in my mind though. I have surfed behind an older 23lsv with a floating wedge and a decent (tiny amount compared to mine) amount of weight and the wave was pretty and had good push. I have been thinking about putting a wedge or a switchblade on a tige for longer then I have wanted a 24v! The convex hull and the blade should work amazing together. Again I am not a marine engineer or anything close!! Having both the taps and the wedge should help with what they call a fire hydrant effect, but the floating wedge shouldn't be as steep of an angle as say a switchblade.

[What she said]

After reading this..., i was thinking you should just add a larger plate to the existing Taps system. I owned 2 Malibu's before my Tige, and the Wedge helped the wave, but it kills the boat perfomance. I mean it feels like you are dragging a tree around behind you. I would still like to see your idea, but the cut-outs on the plate mit hurt the hole idea. Good luck with!

[NICKYPOO]

Well, if anybody is gonna do it, you are the man for the job. Like you said, it can always be taken off.

The only thing sticking in my brain is the notched taps plate.

[duffymahoney]

The taps plate is no big deal to be. Notch it and re-enforce it with stainless square tubing or just buy a smaller one. I can get the plates used for like 50 bucks so its no big deal. Again I only use taps to clean the wave I would rather notch it just to keep the plate as stock as possible. I could add some rubber reins or something so they make a seal around the wedge arms and the rest of the plate. I was guessing the wedge would hurt performance. I run about 300-400 in lead on my boat and I would like to get that out of the boat if possible and I would rather not have the transom sac if possible as well. I hate the idea of having lead in the boat. Or maybe put some of the lead in the bow.

[What she said]

I all so found if a Malibu was weighted heavy in the rear the wedge had less affect on the wave/wake.
Also i think the Taps system has more affect on the wave/wake than the wedge,,, plus it doesnt kill fuel consumption. How ever i can not speak for the floating wedge. What a cool idea if you can get the best of both worlds tho.
Have you thought about the wedge putting added pressure on the taps plate. It would suck if you ripped it off the back of the boat.

[duffymahoney]

People run switch blades and wakeplates all the time with no issue. Tige's taps system doesn't do anything for making the wave or wake bigger. It just lets the boat slip further down in the water and pushes the nose down. I only use it to clean the wave. Most other boats use a wakeplate which is the same as taps. The only difference is the hull design of tige being convex. All the wedge does is pull the boat down. I think I am a go on this. Should be fun!! Hopefully my wave will decimate all

[NICKYPOO]

Go get 'm Duff!

[duffymahoney]

I found out that malibu offers a fixed wakeplate for people looking to barefoot or just bring the nose down with the floating wedge. Kind of like my idea

[dom w. forte]

That plate is not the same as a wedge, on malibu its either or not combined, Im not saying your idea wont work just there is some major issues to work out, the biggest still to me is the slits in the plate, the water pressure on the plate is very intense in order to create lift and the boat needs every bit of surace area to adjust bow attitude.
I dont care what you put in between the silts its going to blow major water pressure straight up through those slits and unless you add to the amount you cut out your going to loose a lot of lift.

[duffymahoney]

I put taps at 4-5 normally which is still pretty angled up. Not too flat or even close to 90 from the transom. Again I prefer to use bow weight to bring the nose down and not taps. I think taps hurts the wave height too much. You could be correct about spray and I know I will have to things fighting each other in the same basic location. I do have a wave sweep after my fae to keep the spray from it away from my wave. Works great. If the slits are too much I will just cut them out. The taps plate is 12 inches wide and the wedge is a hair under 10. So I would only lose about an inch on each side. Which isn't a big deal to me. Thanks for the info on the malibu plate.

[duffymahoney]

Also once i have the wedge in hand i may not work out. I bet there are some unforeseen issues that I haven't thought of yet. But here is to hoping! If it's too big of a task I will just bag it and sell the floating wedge.

[hossdog]

So there is talk over on TheMalibuCrew of a new dual wedge system for either side where you can use it to improve the wake one side or the other or help level the boat. Maybe by installing two smaller wedges on either side you could avoid messing with your taps plate all together. I have zero experience with this stuff, so it was just a thought.

Link to the discussion http://www.themalibucrew.com/forums/...-malibu-rumor/