ZX5... Any experience yet

[gumby]

When I surfed behind one. That was my experience. Clean, Super steep, like so steep it was hard to surf on a skim stile. I did well on surf stile. The wave was not very long I would almost call it super short. (high and steep, good push, not long) Despite having front factory full + a 1000 LBS bag in the play pen. It has a ton of room but kinda thought with the 1000 bag in the front (on the seats) really kills that. The boat is HUGE so it takes a lot of weight to get it sunk. I think I remember him saying the boat weighs in at 6500 LBS and he had that in ballast.(6500 lbs). I have not posted in this thread because my experience was not the best.(Actually horrible) but it is a bran new boat. So there it that. I only spent 8 hours on the boat and 2 of that surfing my self.(I am old so that is about all I can do in a day) We had 4 total in our surf party+owner. From beginner to experienced. Please don't take this as a bad review because it is not. Take it for what it is. An old dumb guys point of view.

[Germaine Marine]

Doubt he had 6500 in it. Factory is 3k,m pnp takes it to 4200, 1k in the bow is 5200. The wave on that boat is long.. just needs to be set up right. Sucks you had a bad experience the boat is anything but that... sounds like a setup issue.

[BlackoutATX]

6500lbs of ballast? Good lord. When are we just going to switch to shaping the cruiser yacht waves?


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[Monesty]

The wave was long and had a ton of push way back.. I was riding the Brigade Couch and I had trouble slowing it down. It was very impressive. With the PNP the swim platform was underwater about 3 to 4 inches. The rear lockers could easily take bigger bags. Sweet boat!!!

[gumby]

I don't know much about his setup. I wouldn't know my boat is a 2000. but I do agree on the setup. The wave was not long.(my 2000 kills it in length) I am pretty sure of the 6500 LBS. There were 350- 400 under the seats manual fill. The guy says 6500 wasn't going to call him a lier. It was a sweet boat.

[Germaine Marine]

Not calling him a liar, probably just misinformation. 6500 is a lot in a boat. I mean ALOT

[gumby]

O I dont think he was misinformed there was a Tige person on board who flew in from Texas.spent a 1/2 a day with us. Trying to help him with the wave.( it is why I don't believe some peoples BS about there customer service) and my experience doesn't matter anyway really. I will be dead or unable to surf before I can afford that boat used. Unless I hit the loto.... witch I don't play. LOL

[Germaine Marine]

Im just a new kid on the block so everything I say should be taken with a grain of salt. If hes running 6500 hes ran the most in that boat that I have ever heard of, and that includes Tige RandD and everyone else. What motor?

[Monesty]

The boat I was on had factory PNP, we were completely full of ballast. about 10 people on board (that included two small children under 5) We had to run back to the dock to pick someone up. Motor is the 460. Boat would not get up on plane. We were close enough that it did not matter. Just feedback. Pretty much at sea level. I do not know which prop is on the boat.