Wakesurfing Ballast setup for 98 Outback

[usaski1]

Do I need weight infront of the driver on the surf side?

[mmandley]

I dont know your boat very well but all Moombas like some weight in the front. At the same time i know a lot of guys who surf with a 750 in the rear and just the 400 in the ski locker, i can surf a boat like that also now.

The thing with surfing is when your learning, the sweet spot is literally the size of a quarter. I surfed for my entire first summer and never found it, nor did anyone on my crew for that matter.

Then this summer we added the 750 and 600 IBS to the nose. My crew instantly found the sweet spot but i didn't.

In August we were at Lake Billy and all the sudden when i wasn't trying i was surfing with all slack in the rope and was able to finally toss it. What it took for me was to finally relax, stop worrying about the sweet spot and what will happen is all the sudden you will find that push and be in the spot.

I found it good to look at the people in the boat or close my eyes and feel the board with your feet, feel how it reacts under you and if you have to look down this is what i found usefull.

My feet shoulder width apart, center on the board and the board near the bottom of the wave where it looks like the nose is only a couple inches above the water.

Its a very delicate balancing act because so often you are leaning on the back of the board and not realizing it, you have to really lean on the front to move the board forward and still be able to tap the back slightly to slow it down. Basically if you can force the board up to the swim deck with out pulling on the rope you got the forward movement now its time to learn to balance that back foot to control that forward movement. Once you get that pocket a couple times you will know it and feel it every-time and in pretty soon toss the rope.

For weighting the boat just remember, weight in the back make the wave taller, weight in the front makes it longer. Tall with no length makes the pocket small and drives you forward much faster, long pocket makes it easier to find the sweet spot but if you sacrifice to much height you wont have forward push and you have to stand on the front of the board.

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usaski

Put the 750 on the side you r surfing and your 350 kitty corner from the yop of the 750 onto your rear seat. My experience with my DD is it requires more side weight than rear weight.