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Originally posted by UNSTUCK View PostWhat was your weight set up for this? People and ballast?
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Taylormoto, that looks great. Can't believe it did that with no ballast. I have the same boat and have been using my gate with well over 1000 pounds of ballast in the rear, closer to 2000 probably and 250 in the front. My wave doesn't look that good. Maybe i'm using to much weight? I'll have to start with no weight and slowly add weight and see what happens.
Also, how did playing with the angle change the wave? What position was best? I think most of us have built our at about an 80* angle. I wonder if less steep is better?
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Originally posted by UNSTUCK View PostTaylormoto, that looks great. Can't believe it did that with no ballast. I have the same boat and have been using my gate with well over 1000 pounds of ballast in the rear, closer to 2000 probably and 250 in the front. My wave doesn't look that good. Maybe i'm using to much weight? I'll have to start with no weight and slowly add weight and see what happens.
Also, how did playing with the angle change the wave? What position was best? I think most of us have built our at about an 80* angle. I wonder if less steep is better?Last edited by Taylormoto; 07-01-2016, 04:10 PM.
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Originally posted by Bryan View PostI did not see a guy on a snowmobile as I was scrolling through... My mind went to the gutter quick
On a side not the gate worked amazing, the boat on the other hand had more pulls this weekend than we did. I think we will
Go trade it in tomorrow
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Update:
I changed the plastic body suction cup with the aluminum body and it worked perfect. I think that not only the plastic vs aluminum helped, but also the suction cups on the aluminum body unit was much stronger. I will experiment more with my setup, but I ran about 1000 lbs in the rear lockers and 400 lbs in the front. I did find that we needed to put people on the side of the rider just to clean up the face a bit. It wasn't the cleanest looking wake, but tremendous amount of push and the ease of switching from one side to the other was awesome. I will take some pics next time I go out.
Also, I noted that the "rooster tail", for lack of better term, that the wedge created was in direct proportion of the wake....meaning if the rooster tail was smooth and clean, the wake was smooth and clean. Anything below or above the correct MPH made an incredibly turbulent rooster tail.Last edited by sagmanaur; 07-06-2016, 05:20 PM.
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originally I posted in the mission gate topic, but this one seems more appropriate so here is the one I made as some were asking, I did cut it down to 8Hx10W
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after cutting down never had it come off, I still prefer listed wave, but I setup the goofy wave for my daughter and it was a pretty legit wave. I'll to post that next
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