Surfing Question and Critique our wave

[kko]

Guma what is the water depth? I know from being on alot of the lakes around here water depth makes all the difference in the world. For example on lake seminole avg. depth 5ft= suxazz surfwake at best. lake tarpon-10-12ft= wave 3 times the size. you need deep water to make a great wave IMPO 5-6ft will not get it done.You can get a decent wave but the deeper the water makes it SOOOOO much better.
Oh and if you ever want to try the I/S Blue Quad come by the shop I will loan you mine you can have it for a couple of weeks and try it out. I really dont surf that much.

[Guma]

kko - I will definitely take you up on borrowing the board!

This was over on Thonotosassa, we go to the back where we are usually at 9-12' in depth.

[Moki]

Ok on the subject of dialing in the wake... Do you guys drive the boat straight? This last time I was doing circles but watching some of the videos it seems like most every one else is driving the boat straight....

And I looks like I need to add more weight to the rear corner... And one got some good suggestions on direct drive boats

On my boat, I get a better wake if I am slightly turning:

[Ptown]

General consensus is that anything less than 10ft deep will ruin the wave. We've actually been surfing on a good wave, hit 8 feet and watched the wave dissapear. As for turning, all that does is clean up the face, doesn't make it bigger or smaller. Not usually a problem for regular side riding though. Another way to clean it up is to add more weight to the rear. As far as speeds and taps go, every boat is a little different and you just have to fool around with it until you find what works best for you. Generally speaking, more speed or more bow weight will lengthen the pocket but give you a smaller wave and less drive. Slower speed or more rear weight will give you a bigger wave but a really small pocket. Dennis Horton is one of the best advice givers out there. Best thing he tought me was to stand up on the board. This should help you center your weight over the board so you are no to far forward or too far back. The adivce he generally gives for weighting the boat is to weight the shat out of the rear, start out with speed at 10.5 ish, taps at 4, then adjust it until you get what you want. With Tiges, a lack of bow weight can be overcome by adjusting taps. Oh yeah, and like you can see in Moki's pic, to determine how much weight you want in the rear, you want the rub rail just above the water.

[lohe]

Ya last year I had some lead weight in the rear ski locker and I took it out and put a sac in. When out for the first time this year with just sacs and noticed my wave and pocket got a lot smaller and had a hard time getting it cleaned up... Every day I had a different amount of people on the boat and different sacs filled so it was kinda hard to figure out what was working best. I think I had way to much weight in the bow and not enough in the rear corner. 1-2 people and one sac partially filled in the walk way.

Its kinda hard getting weight in the rear corner on the direct drive boats...

[lohe]

This was the last day and we had no sacs filled that day... and the wave REALLY sucked.