good wake height

DrummerG · Newbie Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 23 City: Guntersville

ok i board behinde a 21' deck boat w/ a 225hp i/o. the wake seems huge to me apprx. 3ft. is that big or average? and i know u want some wke but can a wake be to big?

LFADAM · Posted: Jul 24, 2005 11:22 am Post subject:

DrummerG, 3 feet?! On an I/O! I think you may be exaggerating. That is about waist high on an average sized person. My wakesetter VLX wake is a little over knee high with stock ballast and it is one of the best wakes out there.

About the wake being too big? Contrary to what many will say, yes. Just Imagine if the wake was up to your neck. By the time you were at the top of it, you would be out of speed! I think the perfect wake height would be just below waist high.

DrummerG · Newbie Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 23 City: Guntersville

it gets up to 3 if i play with the trim and move everyone to the back no exaggerating its a very heavy boat mabey 1.5 tons

LFADAM · Posted: Jul 24, 2005 11:30 am Post subject:

Lets see a picture! I still cant believe this.

DrummerG · Newbie Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 23 City: Guntersville

that will be a week or so go to the house on lake guntersville on weekends just got back

jmac2173 · Outlaw Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 145 City: h-town

yea i know its hard to believe but i ride and i/o and w/ the trim at about 2/5 its pretty crazy. im riding bhind a 232 sunesta deck boat. its 2 tons dry (so its prolly like 2.5 w/ all our stuff) but its got a 300hp mercruiser bravo 3 twin prop. u guys are prolly used to seeing i/o wakes w/ the trim down but when u bring it up it pretty decent. but its bad to cuz the bigger the boat is the wider and more inconsistant the wake is b/c the boat wants to plane out(making the wake smaller) but when u slow down it could crest over. 3 ft. may be an exageration but it is big. i think you'll be surprised when u see his pics tho.

GuitsBoy · Posted: Jul 25, 2005 7:31 am Post subject:

Crap, my boats doubleups arent even close to 3'

LFADAM · Posted: Jul 25, 2005 8:06 am Post subject:

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

Nope, i don't belive you in the least. My sportfish is 5.5 tons dry and empty. With gear and people and fuel its about 7.1 tons. It leaves about a 2-2.5 foot wake at around 20 mph. There is NO WAY even a 3 ton boat leaves a 3 foot wake. I dont care how the hull is shaped.
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slalomguy · Posted: Jul 25, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject:

I believe it, you can throw a 3 foot wake behind an 18ft bass boat BUT, and I mean BUT, its 99% impossible to control speeds, get a fast enough speed, and blowouts are a constant prob at the necessary boat positions to do that so its almost pointless. I dont know about the bigger boats like you guys have. But throwing the wake is def doable.

bighitbiker3 · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 386 City: Seattle

honestly people around waist high wake. You guys are honestly retarded. I have a 21 foot i/o with 1200 lbs ballast and no way will i get it even close to the waist.

numbfoot · Posted: Jul 25, 2005 10:12 pm Post subject:

i'm calling bs too until i see pics....... and i'm sure we all DO want to see pics

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

Slalomguy, no you cant. I have a 17 ft center console and the biggest wake it will leave at any speed for any length of time is anout 2 feet. My boat probably weighs twice wha any bass boat weighs even before ballast. Also the hull shape will never let he wake get that tall, think of the wake as a (albiet rough) negative of the hull shape. A bass boat has such a shallow V that it just wont go that high.
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ckligor · Soul Rider Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 454 City: A-town

I believe it. I have on 02 Baja with 500 lbs bal on the already heavy 4600 lbs boat and my wake is huge. I'll post some picts

ckligor · Soul Rider Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 454 City: A-town

Here is a image

ckligor · Soul Rider Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 454 City: A-town

Thats with no weight in it at all just the wake at 22. I cut the top of the image of me jumping over him off but I will find some when I get home with weight and people in it and a full take of gas

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

Yes that is big but 3 feet, i think not. Look at he guy riding. the wake isnt too much higher than his knee. I probably just feels big because t takes so long fo you to get up it but thats only because its not very steep.
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Kampus-slide · Addict Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 527 City: Tucson

not three feet Sad

RufioSwashbuckle · Posted: Jul 26, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject:

Thats the paradox of our sport. Alot of things seem much MUCH more than they actually are. Take watching a video of yourself for example , when cutting into the wake you feel like youre going 1000 mph , but when you watch it on tape , it looks like nothing at all. CRAZY. Does anyone else feel this way , or am I just tired and retarted?

numbfoot · Posted: Jul 26, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject:

RufioSwashbuckle, i feel the exact same way, but i know that i am tired and retarded.

btw, regardless of the fact that that's not 3 ft, that's a friggin large wake. Laughing

ckligor · Soul Rider Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 454 City: A-town

I think that you should read the posts. I never said my wake was 3 feet but it is huge.

Catch This Wake · Addict Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 590 City: Miami

RufioSwashbuckle, I feel the same way. Especially jumping. You think you went lagre and really only got like 3 feet of air.

RufioSwashbuckle · Posted: Jul 27, 2005 7:53 am Post subject:

Catch This Wake, yea man , all the more reason to huck it bigger the next time around I guess.

WickedClimber · Outlaw Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 157 City: Annapolis

the wake from the boat i use is bigger than that and i thought it was small x.x

w4k3b04rd3r57 · Outlaw Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 131 City: Boca

well my wakesetter puts out about a 3 foot wake but yeah there is a point where the wake is to big...its too big when it starts curling over you always want it sloped not all washy

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

I doubt that even a wakesetter has a 3 ft wake. Nah, I know that it doesn't.
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Catch This Wake · Addict Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 590 City: Miami

I have a wakesetter and no its not 3 feet.

WickedClimber · Outlaw Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 157 City: Annapolis

well... my wakes too big then cuz it curls over and looks like a broke ocean wave but my rents wont get another boat Mad

w4k3b04rd3r57 · Outlaw Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 131 City: Boca

im talkin with full ballast and the hydrofoil down

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

What kind of boat do you have? In i/o's and ob's trimming up will clean it up. Also removing a bit of ballast or a few people will do the samw thing. Or just speed up
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Catch This Wake · Addict Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 590 City: Miami

if its curling over then shorten the rope or speed up to clean up the wake

xxMetalheaDxx · Criminal Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 91

ckligor, what model baja do you have

crazyballa7 · Newbie Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 5 City: phelan

Yeah i wanna see pics too i dont belive this....E-mail them to me when you get em up.

ckligor · Soul Rider Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 454 City: A-town

I have a baja Hammer

GuitsBoy · Posted: Aug 02, 2005 12:34 pm Post subject:

Let me guess, youre packing 18 inches of heat too... I think youre exagerating that 3 feet a bit, man.