$4000 later

[Wulphie]

You're really giving me ideas. It'd be like a cable park, but pulling the kicker to me.

I am thinking a big bmx type spine on pontoons haha that would be epic

[Awill10291]

haha yess! Or a huge half pipe.

[Moor]

you need to re-prop. you likely have the stock 13"x13 prop which doesn't like weight. go down to at least a 13"x11.5, but 10.5 if you plan on running 2000lbs on the regular. i have a 10.5 (Acme model 913) and can still do 34-35mph if needed (you lose some top end) but the extra grunt of the lower-pitched prop helps a ton. i run about 2500 lbs for surfing and it does well as long as i don't also have a full boat of people. if you have a big crew plus ballast, you may want to go with the 9-pitch surf prop that Acme has (model 2101).

This is a good point. I had the stock 13x13 prop on my sunsport, and would load up 1800lb-2200lb regularly to surf. Even with the 454 it worked to pull all that weight, and took a long time to plane out if we were just cruising while weighted down. I switched to an ACME 541 and the boat literally jumps out of the hole now, weighted or not. Props make a HUGE difference.

[Awill10291]

LOL! STRAIGHT NOSE DOVE and ended up draining this. Two 800lb bags on the side and 6 people on boat and I was ABLE TO SURF!

Boat does have wake plate!