24' Tige Weighting?

(tige_n_it) · (tige_n_it) **Join Date: Nov 2004** 09-25-2005, 5:35 PM

I just came across (2) 550lb Launch Bags. I'm going to try them out next weekend. Probably put one up front and one on the swim step out back. Or just put them both up front and try to get a rampier wake. Has anybody had any experience with this set up?

(twitch) · (twitch) **Join Date: Dec 2004** 09-25-2005, 5:38 PM

why would you put one on the swim step?

(mjmurphy53711) · (mjmurphy53711) **Join Date: Mar 2004** 09-25-2005, 5:41 PM

ha, the swim step? so you can watch it sink?

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(tige_n_it) · (tige_n_it) **Join Date: Nov 2004** 09-25-2005, 6:03 PM

Thats the way the bag is set up for. It has straps for snapping around my grab bar. Its not designed to go in the ski lockers on both sides of the motor.

(Message edited by tige_n_it on September 25, 2005)

(spoonman) · (spoonman) **Join Date: Aug 2005** 09-25-2005, 7:21 PM

Do you really want 500LBS on your swim deck while under way??

(madchild1) · (madchild1) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 09-25-2005, 7:51 PM

^^brad, that's what i want to know too.

we had this idea about fabricating stand-up bunks for the swim step of my buddy's ps190. the deck would be able to hold it standing still but while underway was another story.

(thane_dogg) · (thane_dogg) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 09-25-2005, 8:04 PM

quote:
Thats the way the bag is set up for. It has straps for snapping around my grab bar.

Are you out of your gord? Those straps aren't for snapping around your grab bar! Those things go in the locker and you'll need a big sack for the bow. Or put 'em in the lockers and put taps all the way down.

(ttuclint) · (ttuclint) **Join Date: Sep 2003** 09-25-2005, 10:34 PM

sell them to me before you break something.

(brinks) · (brinks) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 09-27-2005, 8:31 PM

Mike, I run two 550-600lbs sacks in the back lockers and two 300lbs sacks under the bow seats. I also run about 1500lbs of lead under all the seating in the middle of the boat and I have about 200lbs of lead on the floor of the boat to make weight adjustments without having to move people, and everynow and then we will run two more 600lbs sacks ,one in the middle on the floor and one in front in the walkway.

(madchild1) · (madchild1) **Join Date: Mar 2005** 09-27-2005, 11:07 PM

brinks, your boat is LOADED! dizzamn! i guess it takes a lot to sink that big boy though.

(rkitz44) · (rkitz44) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 09-28-2005, 1:01 AM

Seriously Brinks. How deep does that configuration draft? Did you add a periscope?

(solo) · (solo) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 09-28-2005, 7:25 AM

I can say that Brinks wake is huge! Plus he has the rival ballast system in it so it's a flip of a switch!

(hamkj) · (hamkj) **Join Date: Apr 2002** 09-30-2005, 7:15 PM

Those straps are for the grab bar? hahahahaha I can't believe this guy thinks that... duhhhh... those are you wrap around the entire swim platform... that way it creates more down force on the back end! For the grab bar... hahahahaha... some people... hahahahaah