How much did you raise yours?
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I took your advice and I am waiting until the screen reads 100% with the red dots. Then I open/loosen the vent at the top of the bags to vent until I hear the pumps kicking back on and water spits out ( usually 30-60 seconds). Seems like they are really close to getting full without venting (maybe 90%), just need a little air out to get all the way.
Sorry, meant to say “and as far forward possible in the bow”.
The Wakemakers upgraded bags are awesome (I installed them in my boat this winter) but just adding weight to the rear will improve your wave but reach you boats potential you should be adding lead in the bow to bring the pitch back down. Without some weight up front, you will have too much pitch and will have to add centre plate to bring the bow down. I don’t have Autowake so I not sure on this but it might even empty your rear bags a bit to achieve the desired pitch if now weight is added up front. If anyone has a Makai and has just added the bags and no bow weight sees this please comment on your experience.
Will see what happens there. The Makai is a bit longer, so bow rise may not be quite as much.
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As high as I could get them so they are above the level of the new bags.
They might have made the tubes on the sensors longer when they did the shallower bins so they might be higher. Do you think your new bags fill higher than the height of the sensor? Is the dot turning red before the bags are full?
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It is actually the opposite which is crazy to think I know. But in the factory set up using Autowake the Makai will actually keep the rears full and dump the bow ballast (a lot of times up to 50% IIRC. It has been a few years since I had the stock setup so might be a little less but it is a significant amount). That being said in my Makai with the wakemakers upgraded bags in the rear and a light crew (3 people with total weight of 650) i have 1k in lead and 900 of it is in the main cabin under the port and starboard seats right in front of my rear bags. I do have the other 100 in the very front of the bow and really just didn’t move it bc I was lazy when setting up and would have moved it if needed. With that setup my boat will ride at 9deg of pitch with all blast at 100%. To find this setup I recently used Ragboy’s procedure to rearrange my lead and that is the set up that it yielded and the wave is amazing even with a light crew.
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