Perfect pull question

[mschmidt33]

So I still have a lot to figure out on our 2013 RZR but one annoying thing is picking up a fallen surfer only allows you to go up to your surf speed. Wife took a wave over the bow. Any easy way to bypass this without turning the system off?

[jmhatchett]

Easy way to "by-pass" this is to stop when rider falls and let all waves pass you by then slowly turn around. Power turning is a huge pet peeve to almost any skier/boarder/surfer even. Just come to a stop and then turn around.

IMO the only time to power turn or even accelerate back towards a rider is if another boat was approaching downed rider i would make that boat divert by driving to my rider.

[mschmidt33]

Thanks for the reply. I understand the best way to pick up a rider but there is always going to be a senario with large waves. My wife will probably never learn lol. So any setting out there to automatically disengage the perfect pull?

Easy way to "by-pass" this is to stop when rider falls and let all waves pass you by then slowly turn around. Power turning is a huge pet peeve to almost any skier/boarder/surfer even. Just come to a stop and then turn around.

IMO the only time to power turn or even accelerate back towards a rider is if another boat was approaching downed rider i would make that boat divert by driving to my rider.

[jmhatchett]

not that i know of, but even at surf speed the boat will throttle enough to raise the bow. The other way is let the waves cross from one side of the boat rather than head on... I dont like that bc it rocks the heck out of everyone but usually effective.

[What she said]

I hate power turns! It burns more gas, and kills everyone in the boat when you slam you surf wave!

[gwhite94]

This would be a couple of steps, push the star button on the right side of the helm. This will bring you to the speed set, hit the on button and it will turn off. But by the time she goes through all of this the wave would have passed....

[Ewok]

You should be able to teach your wife or anyone else who drives you during surfing to throttle down to idle, let the wave pass from stern to bow and then turn around and idle back to the rider. It doesn't dunk the bow and you can teach this easy technique to anyone. It just takes patience.

[wils1092]

Best bet is to definitely pull off the throttle to idle and wait for the wave to pass. You can definitely manage to do this in the same amount of time as the power turn. If I can teach my blonde wife to do it anyone can do it!!

[Dandy]

If you actually compare the time to power turn, deal with the waves and then slow to the rider and compare this with slowing, allowing waves to pass, make your turn and idle back you would most likely find slight if any time difference. We were tought this technique by our dealer and it works very well and keeps the water around much "cleaner" for when you get your rider back up and you are not creating new wakes to work against...everythign has already passed. It is also less intimidating to the fallen rider to have the boat idle back instead of bow rised...the slower approach allows the fallen rider to make eye contact with the driver.

[WakerideN]

I have yet to figure out why everyone is in such a rush at the lake. Rush to get on and off the water. rush to power turn and pick up the rider. maybe its just an american thing. But all the advice here is spot on. we never take on water following what ^^ these peeps say. I guess I am getting old and just find myself in no rush. But one thing we cant stand is power turns. just more mess for everyone.

just from watching people at the lake, seems like alot of bad things happen when people are in a hurry?

[houstonshark]

When we drop a rider, I throttle back and just before clicking it in neutral, I give the wheel a turn towards the ballasted side.
The wave will push the boat most of the way around so that you'll be almost facing your rider.

Unless there is a lot of traffic and big rollers, you should not have an issue at all taking water over the bow.

Here are a couple tips that will make a huge difference in your driving:

1. Use TAPS to help raise the bow when approaching rollers. If the river is really busy, one of the first things I'll do when turning around to get a rider is raise the TAPS plate all the way up. This helps, trust me.

2. Reverse is your friend. If you keep a close eye on your rope or have someone help with the rope, and you make sure and leave yourself enough room to back up, there are not many rollers you cannot ride out in reverse. This also avoids everyone being scared to death as you try and hammer it over a roller, and/or yanking the handle out of your rider's hands.

Just make sure you have room to reverse and also make sure someone is managing the rope.

[kasey200]

no power turns!
http://vimeo.com/22102411

[mschmidt33]

Love it... Sending this to my wife now. We will see how it goes! Thanks guys.

no power turns!
http://vimeo.com/22102411

[IDBoating]

When we drop a rider, I throttle back and just before clicking it in neutral, I give the wheel a turn towards the ballasted side.
The wave will push the boat most of the way around so that you'll be almost facing your rider.

EXACTLY! This is the way to do it. Allows you to drive a straight line right back to the rider, instead of a big looping turn that pi$$es everyone off. Shortest distance is a straight line! Faster, more polite, better in every way than a power turn.

[boatwakes]

Omg you guys kill me with your elevated bows and taking waves over them...;-). Drive my Tige, it will teach you very quickly. I've taken fish home on rough days...