First Attempt at Surf Wake

[sybrmike]

Finally got a chance to start playing with the surf wake. The 454 engine and 541 prop pulled nicely up and held steady speed. Unfortunately, thunderstorms quickly rolled in & didn't get a chance to play around with the wake plates, speed, human ballast, etc. or even get a board on it. Not much in the way of scale or reference, but any comments from you wake masters out there? I think it's definetely gonna be surfable

1 x 400# rear ski locker (mostly full - started lifting the lid)
2 x 450# under the convertible rear bench
1 x 750# port side floor next to engine
1 x 400# port bow (was missing a plug on the starboard bow 400, so couldn't fill it )

3 adults & 4 kids scattered about the boat

wake plate at ~ 1/2 way up
just over 10 mph (on uncalibrated speedo's)

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[wake beater]

u'll be surfin for sure,,now get back out there..

[bmtsupra]

You should have a pretty good surf wake with the bags filled and in those spots.

[Okie Boarder]

That looks pretty good. You'll know for sure once you try riding it. Once out there, try adjusting speed up and down and see if it gets any better or worse. You can also experiment with a little less weight and see what happens. I have 400# bags in the ski locker and under the rear seat, 750# on the floor and a 350# up in the lower front bilge area, plus I'm running 200# hard weight in the bow storage this year. I've played around a bit anywhere from no weight added up front and the two rears half full, the floor bag and a couple people, all the way to all full and 5-6 people and been able to ride almost all of it. Mid range on weight with several people seems to give the best wave so far.

[sybrmike]

So tried setting up for starboard side - not nearly as pretty. Same basic set-up as before, but just swapped the 750 to the chaise lounge behind the driver and remembered to add the missing plug to the stbd bow sac so was able to add some more weight up front. This time I had no crew (just the two daughters - 110# each soaking wet). Had to bump the speed up to 12/13 mph in order to get a lip to form - any slower & it washed out quickly (still uncalibrated speedos, but the same ones as last time so a few mph faster than port).

The boat could definitely handle more ballast (human or sacs). Still had some good freeboard left. The 454 was working hard but steady - does 3100 rpm at 12 mph sound about right? Just didn't seem to want to roll over and list to stbd as well as it did to port.

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Daughter was still able to get up and get enough slack and confidence to throw the rope a few times - although she quickly lost the pocket each time. This was her first attempt at wakesurfing, so I was preaching patience to get the feel - but dang impatient teenager... Regardless, I think the smile says it all!

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[WakeSurfCanada]

12-13mph is just way to fast from my experience. in my SS 9mph is the sweet spot for sure. I'm only running somehwere in the 1800-2000lbs
370lbs Ski locker
585lbs Under rear bench (Centered)
400lbs On surfside (Beside doghouse, as far forward as possible)
400lbs Centered under playpen
Was out surfing last night with just 3 of us and had a great wave. 9mph was defiantly the ticket
I also found a small turn toward the surfside as you get going seems to help crisp up the wave and the you can go straight from there

No Wakeplate
Perhaps a bit more weight up front? That seemed to be the thing that really helped out my wave.

Hope this helps.

[rscottski]

While I'm impressed by the wake it was the beautiful girl that really caught my attention. You are a very lucky man...