cwfehr
02-06-2021, 06:57 PM
I have read many posts on surf settings relating to pitch and roll, but still have two questions I could use some help with:
1. We have surfed with a pitch setting between 9.5 and 10.5 degrees normally. Factory settings were 7.5. I cannot imagine SC creating a factory setting without having some success with it, but we just never found any push. Have any of you found sufficient push at a 7.5 degree setting. If yes, what ballast and speed are you running?
2. I have recalibrated the clinometer in the Max twice. My phone clinometer reads a couple of degrees off the boat still. I have checked the phone using the floor of the house and it is very close to 0 degrees on pitch and roll. Autowake is set to 10 degrees and the phone clinometer reads about 12 as an example. With full ballast (over 5,000lbs) we cannot surf faster than 10.5 mph whereas many of you with the same ballast can surf over 11mph. Our rpm range is typically between 3700 and 4000 with the Raptor 400. I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what...We are using a 15x 12 prop to push a half sunk boat through the water. So my rpm's should be a little higher than with the stock prop, but I feel any more rpms will start to impact longevity. You can probably guess where I am heading with this...If my clinometer is off and I use the phone as a gauge then I will lose some push for sure, but likely be able to get the speed up over 11mph without blowing the motor up. So is the wave that much better over 11mph to compensate for reduced push from a lower pitch? I have seen some pictures of waves over 11mph with similar ballast and they sure look better than my wave! Ironically, my family members and I are all under 160lbs so we shouldn't need much push to begin with! The lakes are frozen up here so not I can I go try anything out for a few months.
Sorry for the length of the post!
1. We have surfed with a pitch setting between 9.5 and 10.5 degrees normally. Factory settings were 7.5. I cannot imagine SC creating a factory setting without having some success with it, but we just never found any push. Have any of you found sufficient push at a 7.5 degree setting. If yes, what ballast and speed are you running?
2. I have recalibrated the clinometer in the Max twice. My phone clinometer reads a couple of degrees off the boat still. I have checked the phone using the floor of the house and it is very close to 0 degrees on pitch and roll. Autowake is set to 10 degrees and the phone clinometer reads about 12 as an example. With full ballast (over 5,000lbs) we cannot surf faster than 10.5 mph whereas many of you with the same ballast can surf over 11mph. Our rpm range is typically between 3700 and 4000 with the Raptor 400. I must be doing something wrong, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what...We are using a 15x 12 prop to push a half sunk boat through the water. So my rpm's should be a little higher than with the stock prop, but I feel any more rpms will start to impact longevity. You can probably guess where I am heading with this...If my clinometer is off and I use the phone as a gauge then I will lose some push for sure, but likely be able to get the speed up over 11mph without blowing the motor up. So is the wave that much better over 11mph to compensate for reduced push from a lower pitch? I have seen some pictures of waves over 11mph with similar ballast and they sure look better than my wave! Ironically, my family members and I are all under 160lbs so we shouldn't need much push to begin with! The lakes are frozen up here so not I can I go try anything out for a few months.
Sorry for the length of the post!