Help me choose a great surf boat with a good wakeboard wake

Originally Posted by taft

Ya I had to edit my post, I was writing it as you posted up your weighting method. You weight your boat differently than I'm sure most would suggest. I would take the weight out of that non-surf side and see what results you get.

It's not as good. It's an easy test since the the stock ballast is a gravity drain and empties in 60 seconds.

What many folks don't seem to understand is that on many boats the best surf wake is not just a function of leaning the boat, it's a matter of how deep you sink the entire hull, along with a bias to whichever side you are surfing.

The deeper the entire hull sinks, the more water is displaced, the bigger the surf wake is.

Originally Posted by Cipher

It's not as good. It's an easy test since the the stock ballast is a gravity drain and empties in 60 seconds.

What many folks don't seem to understand is that on many boats the best surf wake is not just a function of leaning the boat, it's a matter of how deep you sink the entire hull, along with a bias to whichever side you are surfing.

The deeper the entire hull sinks, the more water is displaced, the bigger the surf wake is.

That's strange the wave is worse. Many people here understand how to get the best waves out of their boats. The threads about them here are endless. Maybe that MB has some freak hall, but putting weight along the mid-line of the boat is usually as far as you want to go towards that opposite side.

Originally Posted by taft

That's strange the wave is worse. Many people here understand how to get the best waves out of their boats. The threads about them here are endless. Maybe that MB has some freak hall, but putting weight along the mid-line of the boat is usually as far as you want to go towards that opposite side.

I have had the same experience with a 2005 B52 V23 and a 2011 B52 TWB 23. The hulls are very different.

I have also had the same experience with my buddy's MC X15, which is very different than the MB hulls.