How much ballast poll

[87SunSportMikeyD]

How much water ballast is everyone using for surfing?

In my 19.5' SunSport we run about 1600lbs ballast. How about you?

[iwakeboard]

Ahhh shoot, I clicked 3,000 when I saw "how much ballast?" without reading the actual post, didn't know it was about sufring. However, I started adding it up and I actually still use that much, haha. I use my 1300lbs bow bag, a starboard or port 1100lbs bag, and stack a 700 on top of it.

I don't really know how to tune my surf wake though It keeps a much better shape doing large circles than it does doing a straight line. I just started surfing my boat near the end of last summer, so I don't know how to properly do it, to be honest.

[ssmith]

I'm using approx 1950lbs.

[cmtaylor777]

just to piggy back on this thread,

can you surf in a direct drive? I am a little curious in surfing and I always figured you would need a V drive. Is it worth me going out and getting the board and extra sack or will I ever be able to get a good wake for surfing?

[Ed G]

Unfair selections!!

What about those of us who sometimes surf with NO ballast?

Well, okay, I guess we can consider the driver ballast, but with the cooler filled with beer and ice, we have obtained equilibrium.

My 2009 Outback V produces a very fine surfwake with the stock G3... 450 in the rear corner and 300 in the ski locker. The wake is extraordinary when I put the 750 in the corner.

cmtaylor, I used to surf with my 2003 Outback DD all the time, but it does require at least 1300 lbs.

800 lbs across the rear and a minimum of 500 lbs on the surf side

[Dreamer99]

We run approximately 2500# in our boat and the wave is pretty good. GG sac in the locker (565#), 700# on the rear seat/transom plus the GG sac (1000#) in the ski locker with another couple hundred pounds on top. It looks something like this picture but on the port side.

[docdrs]

water above the rub rail ....thats awesome.....lets see the wave

[ScottnAz]

We run approximately 2500# in our boat and the wave is pretty good. GG sac in the locker (565#), 700# on the rear seat/transom plus the GG sac (1000#) in the ski locker with another couple hundred pounds on top. It looks something like this picture but on the port side.

Hey, that's my boat

[moombadaze]

750lb bag port locker, 400lb bag under port seat--cooler removed, 800 up front. Peeps on port seats, But it is a mobius lsv