More Wake Experimentation

[ragboy]

Now that we are adding more weight with some fat bricks, we have found we are getting a better wake with less weight, only about 150 or so up front.

We also took pictures, to get a more unbiased picture. If you go low from the back of the boat, it looks HUGE. If you go from up hight, it looks long and small. So we got this from very close to the water, but well in front of the trough of the wave, just behind the tower. I had to hold whitney out to get them, which is why some were out of focus, but here are the best.

This is with 400lb sacs in both rear lockers, 450 of fat bricks in seats in back toward side of surf, 100-150 up front on side of surf, and 600+ of people on side. About 2k of ballast.



Man, I still can't clean that gas spill we had that browned my rail. Gotta fix that.





I think you can def see why my graphics are starting to peel, even the 24Ve graphic.



This also shows how the high freeboard on the tige makes a great surfboat. My friend weighs his sanger v210, and gets water, even when driving straight in butter, constantly flowing over the corner of his sun pad.

The sanger v237 is much better, but still low. Water would lap up on sun pad in a turn, or some chop.

[ragboy]

NOTE: I get my pop bags this week, so will be able to place weight lower, and in the outside more, to really maximize. Can't weight!

[chpthril]

Wake is looking good, RB We are still fine tuning ours, but have found with our current sacs, no weight up front is the best.

[dogbert]

Nice wake...but you really need to get that water flowing over the rub rails

[surfmt]

Enzo sac baby!!!

[tigesinaus]

thats huge.. what taps and speed?

[Fast1911]

That is a sick looking wake

[ragboy]

I believe that speed was about 11.6 or 11.8, taps at about 6.

[Weil Thing]

CHP, what sacs are you running? Also, how big is that board you're using?

[chpthril]

CHP, what sacs are you running? Also, how big is that board you're using?

For surfing, I have the Fly-High W716 "L" shaped Surf sac = 700#'s in the port storage. When we dont have put a few people in the boat, I throw a W701 400# V-drive sac on top of it.

I have a W711 Bow sac under the front seats, and another 400# V-drive sac in the starboard storage for boarding.

I ride the CWB 4.9 Tsunami.

[ragboy]

Well I guess I am not getting my pop bags. They took my money, and then kept telling me the bags would ship "today". So I told them yesterday, if they are not really going to ship today, refund my money, and they did.

So what other alternatives to pop bags? Does anyone else make something like that?

[dogbert]

Well I guess I am not getting my pop bags. They took my money, and then kept telling me the bags would ship "today". So I told them yesterday, if they are not really going to ship today, refund my money, and they did.

So what other alternatives to pop bags? Does anyone else make something like that?

You could make your own. Somebody on here went to a tire shop and collected the balance weights that they throw away when they replace your tires. Get some tough canvas bags and line them with some tough plastic and you'd have what you needed. Pop bags are nice because they use small lead pellets so they're super maleable. Or you could you could melt them down into bricks that you'd cover with carpet, but you'll need to be super careful because lead fumes are very toxic.

[da.bell]

bench press free weights or free weights would work.

Getting led from the tire stores here in CA will be come very difficult unless you know someone.

[dogbert]

bench press free weights or free weights would work.

Good point. Especially the plastic ones filled with sand. Speaking of which, why wouldn't sealed sand bags work?

[da.bell]

They would work. My only problem would be when they or if they rip. Then you have sand all over the place.

Rubber coated weights seem good.