I replaced my carpet with Hydroturf and love it. drys quick and is confortable and easy to clean and looks better. Lots of work, but worth it. There's lots of threads from a lot of us that have done this on the Moomba forum.
http://www.moomba.com/msgboard/showt...ight=hydroturf

I replaced my swim platform on both my Supra and Moomba because they were too big on the corners and would cut into the wake. The one on my supra was just a prototype and we made it out of wood and coated it with sealant. The one on my Moomba is made of HDPE and it's easy to work with and will last forever. I used 3/4" HDPE because it's less expensive. I get some flex, but I think it'll manage fine. Others have used 1". Again, a handful of threads about this on the Moomba forum.

How the speakers compare will of course depend on which HLCD speakers you were running and what size they were. I compared my HLCD's against my friend's "surf speakers" and we had similar output but his did sound a little nicer in SQ. But I have fewer and mine are about the same loudness. I guess you'll be the only one that will be able to tell us the results. That said, by all means look into a Fresh Air Exhaust. it's the best "stereo upgrade" you can get. they quiet the boat down so much it's like doubling your stereo.

My boat is a 23'. I've found that my optimal setup is:
  1. 1100 bag full in the surfside locker
  2. 1100 bag about 1/2 full in the non-surf side locker
  3. 1180 bag full under playpen
  4. 400 bag under surfside seats
  5. sometimes I add about another 250 under the bow surfside seat


The bow sack is something I'm playing with. If I have two or more good sized adults on the surfside, I can be fine w/o the additional bow sack. If not, the wave's not as clean.

For me the missing piece of the puzzle was adding that non-surfside rear weight to get the additional push. But then it takes more mid to front weight to clean it up once you do that. And yes, the lip of the platforms rob you of push.


I agree, a zone controller for the music is a MUST HAVE. I've had both the Exile and the WS. I like the WS because it has separate EQ's for the towers vs the cabins, because it has the microphone to tell at idiots around you in the no wake zone, and because it has the Aux output to link up more than one boat stereo together. It was fantastic to be able to link my boat with my friend's when we were tied up and to have our systems both playing the same source. But the Exile's a nice unit too, it just didn't have those features I'd gotten used to.