September Gift, and I love My Wake

[ragboy]

Been watching the weather, and yesterday was supposed to be in the 80s, and low to no wind. We went out, and it was gorgeous. The water was cold, but other than that, it was a beautiful day.

Also, I just have to say, I love my Tige. And more importantly, my wake. The wake on my 24Ve is so beautiful, its a perfect ramp of water. I only put 400 in each locker, and my family, and thats it. The boat still does 42 on the top end like this also. Its amazing to have a wake like this, and the boat still handles great, great mileage and all. This wake is def bigger and cleaner than the wakes I see on the INT comp boats, and they are loaded up. The 2007 Air Natique team edition has stock ballast, and they add sacs, including one big one, that takes up the whole bow. The Bu wakesetter is loaded, AND full wedge.

Here are some great pictures, where you see scale with my kids.

Maddie is 9, and ~4.5 feet tall.



RJ is 12 and 5'8"








Heres a great one


RJs stitches are out, but still in a lot of pain when he puts the bindings on, you can see it in his face on landing an w2w indy.







Ashley is 16, and 5'8"



Best for last, look at that ramp. Is that sweet or what?

[ragboy]

Some of the glass















This is one of my favorites. I just got ashley this new board a week ago. Its a hyperlite syn. Its a great board, basically an ERA for girls. It edges SO much better than her LF Team she had, and she just loves showing off how she can edge on it, here, she is actually NEXT to the boat.

[ragboy]

The Cherry on Top

We boarded til I could barely see Whitney even with the lights on. It was a great day. On the way back, all of a sudden everyone starts whoopin and hollerin, and I look in my mirror and see what it is. The moon is rising in the tree line, and its FULL and clear, and white, and the most amazing moon I have ever seen, and there was a line of the reflection of the moon all the way to the boat on the glass. We had to stop and stare. I actually through a power turn at 35 to get right back to the spot. We tried to take a picture, but to get the light, you have to open the aperture, and keep the shutter open, and its really hard to hold the camera still. This is the closest we got, and it doesn't even come close to what we saw, but I think you can imagine. You could see all the craters in the moon CLEARLY. Hard to keep the camera still on a floating boat. We did the best we could.



For the picture junkies out there, you can see all the pics, and some great w2w sequences of ash and rj here:

http://homepage.mac.com/ragboy/GreatSeptemberDay/

[evil0ne]

Nice pics

[talltigeguy]

Very nice. Anyone who complains they do not have a good wake on a 24V/Ve needs to have their head examined. The boat puts out the best wake out there. Every time I go on someone else's boat, I love mine more. The best thing is that I can go from steep and clean to rampy and clean with the push of a button. Other boats can adjust the wake, but they lose the cleanliness(?).

I still feel that I like some weight up front, but that is likely the difference between the V and Ve wake. They changed the prop angle a tad, and that is probably why I like a little more weight up front. The wake looks no better with weight up front, but it feels more better.

[ragboy]

I hear you. Whenever I put more weight up front, I feel like it brings the bow down a bit, and doesn't allow me to TAPS UP as much. and I can always TAPS down to bring the bow down. And I usually have at least 2 kids up there, that is about 150-200 lbs give or take, so with that, I leave the weight off the front.

[five o'clock]

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing it looks like it was a great time to be out.

That moon is amazing! My wife and I were drivining last night around dusk and she pointed it out to me then, it was cool. I don't think we had as good of a veiw as you did. Great picture!

[TRD]

Nice Ragboy,
Look like you guys had a great day. Was that your son who cut his foot?
Nice Pictures.

[ragboy]

Nice Ragboy,
Look like you guys had a great day. Was that your son who cut his foot?
Nice Pictures.

Yeah, thats him. The stitches are out, but its still pretty nasty. It was a big cut. I starts to come open when he boards too much. I give him props for even going out.

[spenchey2]

man that moon shot looks excatly like my lake last night, but i had no one to go with.

[third timer]

look to the east

I get a similar view out my bay window on a clear moonlit night, but the mountains and all really add to it all. awesome!

[Domsz06]

nice pics!! what camera are you using?

[ragboy]

Canon Digital rebel XT with 18-55mm lens, and 75-300mm lens. Great camera.

[scoot18]

Great shots, and nice water. Is that Shasta Lake?

I would have loved to been there with you to see that moonlit lake. I love being on the water at night with some moonlight.

[ragboy]

No, its our home lake of Lake Oroville. Very similar looking, also very large, but fortunately for us, not very well known because of lakes like Shasta, Berryessa, and Folsom.