deep V hull

zekemule · Outlaw Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 130 City: Tennessee

A few ( just a few ) of the wake boarding boats have a deep V hull at the transom .. the Centurion Avalanche has a 19 degree deadrise at the transom .. the Tige' 22 V has about 14 degrees .. The big three have 10 degrees or less .. It is my understanding that the deeper the V .. results in a better ride in rough water .. ( and a bigger wake ) .. I believe that the hull designs of the future for the wake board boats will be deeper V hulls .. of course when you weight down a boat with ballast .. the result will be a larger wake also .. but the flat botttom boats will still have a more bouncy ride when heading back home in rough water .. comments please .. thanks ..

david k · Criminal Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 88 City: SoCal

i have a centurion avalanche, it has a really nice rough water ride, and a great wake, but i also ride behind a wakesetter vlx which has a great wake too and still rides decent in rough water. my buddy has a supreme 220 (direct drive) with what seems like a relatively flat bottomr and it has a pretty bad rough water ride, and you need alot of weight to get a real wake out of it, and by the time you put that much weight, the boat handles like crap. with the centurion on vlx with about the same wieght (2000+lbs) it handles much better and has a better wake. so i guess im saying deeper V hulls are better

david k · Criminal Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 88 City: SoCal

that one sentence about handling sounds kind of confusing. i was trying to say that the wakesetter vlx and centurion avalanche will have a better wake/handling when really weighted down. plus the centurion doesnt require a whole lot of weight for a good wake.

Sportster4Tec · Posted: Sep 14, 2003 10:34 am Post subject:

Well with a deep-v hull you do get better rough water ride obviously because the boat cuts through the water better. The deep-v hull can look like it has a bigger wake but the shape and stiffness of the wake isnt usually as good. With more of a flat bottom when you add a lot of weight it makes a big wake that is very solid. The wake from a deep-v hull isnt as solid or well shaped. If the deep-v hull were better i think more of the companies would use them. The SANTE, XStar, VLX, etc dont use deep-v hulls but they have the best wakes.

krbaugh · Addict Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Posts: 758 City: Edwardsville

The SANTE Xstar and VLX are all baseed on old ski boat hulls.

The trend will be to deep V

Sportster4Tec · Posted: Sep 14, 2003 1:31 pm Post subject:

No actually the new XStar hull is not an old ski boat hull. The new Tige convex v hull has a slight v for better rough water ride it is also not based on an old ski boat hull.

krbaugh · Addict Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Posts: 758 City: Edwardsville

The Tige is a V much like the Centurion hull \_/

The X Star well that hull is a choped up Xstar hull

No0ne · Criminal Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 65

Hi,
Kind of confused on how the density(solid wake) of water changes because of the shape of a hull? I understand shape changes drastically or not from hull to hull. But how does water become more solid than well...water?
I guess im a Newbie!

Seth Martin · Moderator Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 891 City: Orlando

the deeper the v at the transom, the more tendency for the wake to wash over at wakeboarding speeds.

so what if the hulls were from designed for skiing! Don't they work?

krbaugh · Addict Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Posts: 758 City: Edwardsville

sure just add weight some times lots of it

MrBlean · Posted: Sep 15, 2003 8:07 am Post subject: Re: Solid Wake

No0ne · Criminal Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 65

So, correct me if I am wrong what your saying is its all about the ramp (shape) of the wake. Not the stiffness of water, because water is water??
Thanks

Ralph · Posted: Sep 15, 2003 8:48 pm Post subject:

Could also have something todo with the turbulence of the water, the more churned up the water the less solid it will be.

MrBlean · Posted: Sep 15, 2003 11:31 pm Post subject: Solidity of wake