Moomba Makai Owners- Adding Weight?
Hey guys. I've owned my Makai now for just over a month. The wake surfing has been, what I thought until today, pretty good. Just by random chance today, two guys were sitting on the port side rear of my boat today and my God, what a huge difference it make on shaping the surf wake. Several of you guys recommended me buying 500 lbs of lead to add to that side when I first joined this forum but I didn't think that was needed until today. Got a few questions. 1. Where is the best place to buy lead weight to be placed in the boat (Tractor Supply?) 2. Where in the rear of the boat do you place the lead weight? 3. Do you just leave the 500 lbs of weight in the rear of the boat all the time? 4. Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a 500-750 lbs ballast bag to put back there?
Thanks for the much needed advice.
Moomba Makai Owners- Adding Weight?
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Originally Posted by
Tommy2slow
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.
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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