Act of Stupidity

[Legionnaire70]

How come the same cloud above the steering wheel in the upper left corner never moved? Hmmmmmm....

[Par Four]

Originally Posted by Legionnaire70

How come the same cloud above the steering wheel in the upper left corner never moved? Hmmmmmm....

Looks to me like they all move in unison, starting at the 00:10 mark when he's at idle and it begins to rock as he takes off his jacket, thru the 1:00 mark when he gets back aboard.

What I do notice is the boat is not evenly trimmed out. Seems like its down a bit on the port side, the transom is not level with the horizon. Could be that a hidden human is in the bow area on the port side? Or maybe that particular boat, at that particular speed and prop pitch combo, without the offsetting eight of the driver?

Or, it could be he's got it setup to specifically ride that way using the water ballast fat bags in order to get just the right shape of wake.

Either way I'm struck with how casual the young lad is thru the whole thing, and doesn't really even look at the camera.

[codeman671]

Wakeboard boats do not have trim, they are either straight shaft inboard or vdrive. Some have wake plates that are meant to help shape the wake but do help with bow lift, they are usually in the center as opposed to trim tabs. When wake surfing you intentionally sink one corner of the stern by filling a ballast tank on a specific side to create the curl in the wake needed.

[Par Four]

Thanks Codeman. Is this style boat typically a bow rider?

[codeman671]

Originally Posted by Par Four

Thanks Codeman. Is this style boat typically a bow rider?

Yes. I have never seen a closed bow wakeboard boat. Also it is imperative that you never try to wake surf on an outboard or stern drive boat. The prop on a wakeboard boat is far enough forward and partially blocked by the rudder so that if you do slide down the front of the wake you will not get clipped. A website I read indicated that at 9-10mph there is 800lbs of force being generated by the wake that will prevent one from getting too far under the boat.

[Dave R]

Originally Posted by codeman671

Yes. I have never seen a closed bow wakeboard boat. Also it is imperative that you never try to wake surf on an outboard or stern drive boat.

I guess I'll have my surfing buddy leave his board at home. Darn, that looks like fun, but the thought of mixing it up with a Bravo 3 is rather daunting...

[NHWakesurfer]

Codeman actually the newer wake boats have what they call surftabs on both sides along with the tab in the middle. this allows you to really drop one side or the other depending if you surf regular foot or goofy foot (right forward)

Dave R. you are right to think that not wanting to tangle with the Bravo's. Never ever on an I/O or outboard you would get messed up if you came to close and fell. The inboards or V-drives are the only thing that works. The prop is out of the way.

The wakes are big but still nothing like having a Carver come by the house at slow speed or a winni thunderstorm pounding us.

enjoy the summer

Buy a Mastercraft they are the best

[tis]

Thanks NHWakesurfer, for clearing that up. As mentioned above, I was worried about the propellers. Now, the second issue. Do you believe that boat really had no driver while he was wakesurfing??

[Par Four]

Yes, thanks for the info. This has been educational.

Does anyone happen to recognize what boat make/model this is? I'd like to look at some other views of it.

[NHWakesurfer]

TIS it does appear that he does put the boat into a hard port side turn which it would stay there without a driver hold the wheel with the ballast weight on that port side. The reason he doesn't look like he is moving forward its because he isn't going straight its an arc towards the angle of the camera to create that wake on that side but if you look at the clouds to the boat it does have a slight movement so that would indicate its very real. Is he crazy enough to do it without someone on the bow as a back up if he falls I don't know you can't see the bow if someone else is there. For the surfing yes you can stand on the platform slide off and than slide back on the swim platform since its underwater with the weighting on that side and step off and grap the board without getting wet. So its possible folks do all kinds of crazy stuff these days but it certainly a bad idea for sure if he did this by himself.

ParFour it appears to be a Mastercraft you can see the logo on the port side dash and the tower looks to be the mastercraft style not sure which X series but looks to be an X35 or so.

[EllyPoinster]

Here's where you can learn how to wakesurf right here in the Lakes Region. Well, maybe your kids . . .

I watched these folks all summer long last year and look forward to doing it again this summer.

[NHwakeboarder]

This isn't the first time this has been done either. Stupid idea if he is alone in the boat but he's not the first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ULrarTl9LQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ20w86ln3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymGkBGLOMFU

[tis]

At least the guy in the first boat was smart enough to have someone with him. (Must have been the photographer, too.) The others look like they were filmed by the wakesurfer. That is just plain stupid to do all alone.

[ApS]

Originally Posted by codeman671

Wakeboard boats do not have trim, they are either straight shaft inboard or vdrive. Some have wake plates that are meant to help shape the wake but do help with bow lift, they are usually in the center as opposed to trim tabs. When wake surfing you intentionally sink one corner of the stern by filling a ballast tank on a specific side to create the curl in the wake needed.

This is an example of a "manual" wake plate: