^^ agree on what drnate said, you should at least try a suck gate first to see what it does. I would be scared to drill more holes in my boat without knowing what it would do, if you did it, would you remove the vertical side tabs?
I use a Nauticurl suck gate on my boat. Super clean wave with great curl to wave, lots of push and easy to put on and switch sides in under a minute, it also lengthened my wave. You probably know this, but typically you can add bow weight to add some length, tho you will lose some height, may not matter tho if you have enough ballast. I run 5k lbs of ballast and run around 1k in the bow, if I put it all in rear, wave is so high when I got to neutral it will crash over sundeck and into the boat, so not good....you will burn a lot of money installing the type of system you are talking about.
I only know of 1 boat that has similar system (called GSA...go surf assist). On a friends boat, 2007 Malibu 247. Does a great job on his boat, great wave.
Pro tip...if you try a suck gate, slightly list boat to surf side. Usually makes the wave a little better, you can also play with placement on side of boat, front to back. I find the further back, the better...its one thing I like about the Nauticurl, the "gate" is at the back, also cheaper than most at $230 and it floats with their new model. I place mine 8-10" off back of boat.
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