Chad M
09-22-2008, 09:12 PM
The lake I am on has only one deep section really suitable for surfing (>8') but it tends to get a lot of traffic and huge party rafts that put it off limits a lot of the time. Thus I'm playing with the best setup for a 5' - 6' stretch that gets a little less use. Around 4' it seems pretty dire, but I get a decent wake when the water is a little deeper. I surf goofy and I've got an '07 LSV with 750 in the back, 400 behind the driver and 400 in the ski locker and the wakeplate around 50 to 75% up. In deeper water the speed is around 10 - 10.5 but that feels too fast in the shallows and it seemed like 9 - 9.5 was better. Much slower than that and the wave totally washed out.
If you haven't experienced it firsthand the wake really loses drive and diminishes in height when you hit the 8' mark. Below 5' it seems to have trouble even forming and gets really washy. As I mentioned above it seemed to help by dropping the speed to steepen the wave up a bit. My Red Tide is definitely more forgiving than my Blue Lake on the shallow water wake.
Any suggestions for further optimizing my shallow water setup?
Chad
If you haven't experienced it firsthand the wake really loses drive and diminishes in height when you hit the 8' mark. Below 5' it seems to have trouble even forming and gets really washy. As I mentioned above it seemed to help by dropping the speed to steepen the wave up a bit. My Red Tide is definitely more forgiving than my Blue Lake on the shallow water wake.
Any suggestions for further optimizing my shallow water setup?
Chad