The Reveal: AutoWake and WakeTouch!

[IDBoating]

Congratulations and I sincerely hope all the hard work pays off.

Start pressuring the boat companies!

[empty_boat]

Very interesting and great job. We have wondered for quite a while why boat companies weren't using a tablet.
We had an idea/question for you, could i bring my tablet with my songs and my settings and plug it into your boat? Then I would have a "portable wave".

[IDBoating]

It would be easy to transfer settings from someone's portable device. The videos even discuss coming up with great ideas involving the wireless interfaces (as do the patents, BTW). Step on the boat, pair the Bluetooth, transfer, and you're ready. Or, dial in the wave/wake the way you like it and save it on YOUR phone for the next time (in case the owner doesn't keep it around).

We've also thought about making it a portable file format, so folks could post and share their settings. Lots of fun possibilities.

[dakota4ce]

I think I will wait to buy the Hydrophase Ridesteady for a couple weeks.....are you gonna tell us as soon as you reach a deal? Or, maybe I would need the cruise control anyway so go ahead and install?!

[alwayssummer]

DUDE!!!! this is awesome. I see the number is 720. where in CO are you and how much? I want it!!!!!!

[Teamfrick]

awesome. totally revolutionary...

[robert theisen]

Great job WA. I think someone will pick this up quickly. It will make every Wake/Surf boat newbie friendly. It Can be setup by the factory with advanced settings for any user preference. It's a no brainer for all the boat manufacturers.

[Stingreye]

Tige should buy this
and put it in their boats. This would shut up the people who are
complaining that Tige is behind the times without a surf system. This
would put them so far ahead of everyone else.


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[st68]

This looks interesting. So does does autowake allow for instant transfer of wave from regular to goofy and vice versa if a boat does not have the ability to do this already?

[dakota4ce]

Here is a random question:

Do boat companies like Tige have a lot of capital? Do they make money? Do they make lots of it?

Has to be somewhat of a tough/tight business I would think, very capital intensive and economy dependent. Just curious if making capital investments like this awesome wake system are in the cards for all of them. These guys deserve to sell for lots of cha-ching!

[CarFanatic]

so it sounds like your selling this tech off to the highest bidder, and not selling to individuals?

my question is, what if you dont have enough ballast weight, to compensate for passengers and where they are sitting? I would still think you might have to move people around?

I wish I could just have a unit to measure list in my tige touch. that would help alot.

[IDBoating]

This looks interesting. So does does autowake allow for instant transfer of wave from regular to goofy and vice versa if a boat does not have the ability to do this already?

No, AutoWake automatically controls the capabilities that your boat already has. It insures that you can duplicate what the factory shows in their photos on Day One, insures that you can have totally consistent waves (same yesterday, today, and tomorrow), and does all of this even if you have different passengers, or different riders, or as passengers move around, or riders switch out, etc.

All other systems basically "guess" at restoring previous settings, because they're measuring the wrong things. The same trim and ballast settings do NOT give you the same wave unless everything else about your boat is identical - same people, sitting in the same places without moving, same rider behind the boat, same gear, same fuel level, etc. Anything that changes the balance or depth of the hull in the water affects your waves and wakes, but older systems aren't measuring the hull so they don't know about such changes and cannot compensate for them. AutoWake DOES measure the hull and DOES compensate to keep the hull where you want it, thus restoring the same wave/wake.

Hope that clears things up, thanks!

[IDBoating]

so it sounds like your selling this tech off to the highest bidder, and not selling to individuals?

Correct. We will tool up and produce it if nobody buys it, but we think the best solution for us and the industry is for an existing player to buy it and use it as a powerful, patented advantage over the competition.

my question is, what if you dont have enough ballast weight, to compensate for passengers and where they are sitting? I would still think you might have to move people around?

Sure, it's possible to so overweight the hull in some direction that your ballast cannot compensate. The system can tell you that, and once you rearrange things a bit it can go right back to normal operation.

I wish I could just have a unit to measure list in my tige touch. that would help alot.

If that's all you need, there are countless "level" apps for smartphones. That will work great - until something changes. Like you switch out riders, or passengers come and go, or move around. Then the angle(s) and/or depth will be wrong, you'll have to measure again, and adjust again, over and over and over....

[CarFanatic]

Yes I have an app on my phone, but I rarley take my phone on my boat, because of no cell service on our lake.

I"d love to have just the autowake portion on my boat!

[IDBoating]

Has to be somewhat of a tough/tight business I would think, very capital intensive and economy dependent. Just curious if making capital investments like this awesome wake system are in the cards for all of them.

We researched that ahead of time before committing to this project. Money is tight in every industry (unless you're Apple Computer!). The BIG problem that the marine industry faces is risk. We talked to several companies while planning this project and the feedback we got was that they could not afford to throw money at an R&D project that had uncertainty. Tooling up for a new boat hull is expensive, but they can predict the schedule and budget pretty well so there's less uncertainty. But the folks we talked to were terrified of projects outside of their immediate expertise. What if it goes over budget? What if it takes far longer than expected? What if they spend a whole bunch of money and find out it doesn't work? What if they spend all the money to pursue patents and they fail to issue? The uncertainty and risk makes them far less likely to take on something like this.

That's why we think this is such an attractive opportunity. We have eliminated the risk and uncertainty for them. The technology ALREADY works. The patent claims are ALREADY issuing. This package is real, it's here today, it can be purchased for a known fixed price and then they own it, free and clear, and totally control it thanks to the ~17 years of patent life.

For what one of these companies spends on advertising that goes away in a week, month, or year, they can buy a legally-protected advantage that will last them 17 years and the risk and uncertainty is already over. Deals like that don't come along very often. Some smart player in this industry will realize that and take advantage of it. And the rest of them will look back and wish they had done it themselves. 17 years of advantage is a VERY long time in this industry!