rope lengths

thinking about getting a new rope what length is everyone riding at?

I'm not an expert but it depends upon what your trying to do and what speed your riding at. For example if your just learning wake to wake jumps you should be running a shorter line vs. a long rope for the advanced rider throwing Raleys. I would be interested to hear what the opinions are out there for how line length impacts/effects riding techniques since there seem to be several different opinions on the subject.

Do a search on rope length and you'll probably find more than you'll ever want to read about what length people ride at.

(Message edited by shutupandboard on December 11, 2004)

hey bro, the longest rope is the best. ride out as long as possible while the wake is still nice. i ride 80ft behind the malibu and 85 and sometimes 90ft behind the natique. its your call, but longer is better.

I agree with jared, long rope is good. I have an x-star that I ride a 85-87 foot line, when I ride malibu I too ride 80.

To answer your question buy a 75 foot rope and with the 5 foot handle section handle will be 80 feet which is the perfect length for a Malibu

I'm riding at 65 feet. It also depends on the type of boat, the wake, where the wake curls, how the boats weighted.

you could search this and get a million responses, but people have a tendency to go too long too early in my opinion. I would stick with a 70' rope and a 5' handle max until you have a few inverts and spins you are consistent on. The extra length usually means more boat speed and only a small amount more hang time. For reference we started with a ski rope (about 60' long), then went to a 65' rope, then 70, 75, and now I ride 80 behind everything. That was about 4 years worth of progression with boat speed going from 18mph behind a I/0 to 23.5/24 behind fully weighted comp boats. Choose whats best and most comfortable for you. If you go too long and have trouble getting wake to wake you'll never learn new tricks.

I ride 70 behind my PS 190, but 75 behind a malibu VLX as wellas a Moomba XLV

25 ft/ 18 mph

I ride 80 or 85ft at 26.5 MPH behind a loaded nautique.

Here's a random idea... has anyone ever tried riding at like.... 150 feet? Just for fun, I don't mean seriously riding at that length but has anyone ever tried it? Putting two lines together... I was just thinking about that the other day and would like to try it, but what happens to the wake that far back, isn't it more like a roller that far back? there seems to be some potential fun back there just for messing arround... any thoughts?

hey bess, check out the newest issue of alliance wake magazine. right in the editors note, mike schwenne is being pulled by me and hes is over 200 ft back. it says rider unknown, but i was driving the boat and can gaurantee it was mike s.

jared you guys are crazy. Was mike able to pull any air rolls or anything? I would doubt it considering being 200 feet back, line tension must be interesting. You guys are nuts. See you this summer.

Jared, what did Mike say about it? is it any funny? what does the wake do that far back?

bess, their isnt really any wake back there. its like the third wake, its way back and way small. it was just kinda a fun dumb thing to do you know.