spent the day on a '22 SL

spent last weekend in my old hometown Boise Idaho to see family and burn some vaca days. long story but back in the '70's we had a family member that owned a lake house on payette lake in McCall. it's where most of our family grew up in the summer time. lots of great memories there. cabin was sold in the late80's and gone. in around 2016 it came up for sale and cousin's family bought it and so it's back in the family. he invited me up for a day on the water to see the old place and check out his SL. WHAT A GREAT DAY.....
was cool to see the cabin. 1bed/1bath around 6 or 700sqft. perfect size for a weekend getaway as you don't need all the comforts of home to enjoy "lake life". only 5ft from the edge of the deck to the water. the house next door was owned by a super nice older guy. it was quite a bit bigger than the family place growing up, maybe 1800sqft set back and great views. as most of the world is nowadays, the cabin next door was leveled and rebuilt with an 11,500+/- sqft 3 story that is just plain silly. makes a good marker to see when returning from the marina tho......



now the boat. I have to say the interior was absolutely the nicest vinyl I have ever sat on. I didn't drive so can't say much about the electronics but cousin commented that he preferred the tige GO system as it's much simpler and more user friendly but the supra system wasn't bad. I can understand as watching over his shoulder the supra system would have taken a lot more talking to get me used to it than the single tige screen. the 550 was an absolute beast in the water. boat never even thought about pulling a rider up. taking chop it was the smoothest ride I have been on going over other boats' surf waves. just kinda floated over them.
for a pretty much factory stock wave, I was extremely impressed. regular side was steep and had a ton of push for my 215lb fat arse. never had to struggle to keep up with it. could have been a tad longer and I know if he tinkered with it he would find another 5ft but it's not like it was only a 10ft wave. overall a great surf wave for an out of the box boat... didn't get any pics of the regular side but did of him riding the goofy side.
overall a great day full of memories and an AWESOME experience on a '22 supra. such a nice boat the guys in the castle next door had a '22 SL and a mastercraft and saw the SL on the water more than the MC.
Made me go buy a lottery ticket saturday afternoon but I'm back at work on monday so we know how that went :)
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I typically just press the Rider Profile and go - REG or GOOFY.

Then I spend time adjusting (tuning) the wave as people move around or someone bigger or smaller gets back there. The kids really like the smaller and longer skim styles so I put more weight in the front of move the center tab.

Yea, 2023 with the 575 - lottery ticket is about right.

Out of the box Goofy is pretty darn clean. And to think it will only get bigger.

Supra out of box waves are legit, doesn’t need more weight, but of course gets impressive with more weight.

8.5-9.5 pitch is where it’s at. Roll is not super sensitive, you absolutely don’t need autowake at all.


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Somebody actually used the sliding bench and observation seat! The only time we use ours is to get access to the sea strainer for mussel inspections!

Looks like a blast though.

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Originally Posted by Zog

Somebody actually used the sliding bench and observation seat! The only time we use ours is to get access to the sea strainer for mussel inspections!

Looks like a blast though.

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we use ours all the time for wakeboarding, it is a good perch to video and help even up the wake

I’ve wanted to summer in McCall since I was a kid. I took my wife up there when we bought our 2020 SA from a family in Boise. She really liked it except the cold water. Whenever I had to go to McCall for work, I would send her pics, and she seemed rather uninterested until I took her there. Cascade lake is also nice. You got lucky being there without fire smoke. I’d been through Cascade 3 times before visibility was good enough for me to see Cascade Lake.

I’m jealous, and disregard my question about where you are in the other thread with the broken paragon.


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Looks and sounds like some good times! And yes that wave looks great. Didn't see too many people in the boat either, or the back anyway. That house makes the cabin look like a yard storage building! LOL! Thing is huge!

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We had 3 adults and 5 teens on the boat.
Never felt crowded at all. The SL bow is pretty well sized for the rest of the boat. Has a smaller sundeck than im used to but made the interior feel real spacious.

Water temps were 74 and 80ish air iirc. Not mead but not iceland either.....