You can get a lot more info on the G's if you got to the PlanetNautique forum. Every boat gets better with more weight than stock, but different hull and surf system designs can change how they like to be weighted to maximize you results. In my experience, in the G boats, you will want to spread the weight out between rear, mid-ship and bow once you start adding weight over stock. Obviously rear weight is the most important, but with NSS if you get a lot of extra weight at the rear, due to the design of the NSS tabs the water will flow over the NSS (similar to SurfGate boats) and not give you the cleanest wave. That is probably why you heard what you did about "the best wave being 75% full ballast").
To compensate and keep a great wave, making it taller and longer....as you add rear weight, you also need to add bow weight.
I would say you want roughly 25-30% in bow compared to total rear weight. So if you have 3000lbs in rear and mid, you will be wanting roughly 750-1000 total in bow. In my boat I have a 500lb bow sac under front seats and then another 500lbs of lead bags since they are easily moved around if you want. I run right at 5000lbs of total ballast on my 24ft Centurion SV244.
Anyway, my .02, good luck.
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