Moomba Max ballast question.

[TheMirror]

Right, makes sense. Try are fitting up everything this week. I'll make sure all fits well... Thanks for the advice


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[MrWick]

Right, makes sense. Try are fitting up everything this week. I'll make sure all fits well... Thanks for the advice


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WakeMAKERS made their max rear package available last week...it’s 1500 lbs per side....I hope they start working on a bow bag....Max needs it! Plus a lot of lead!

[TheMirror]

WakeMAKERS made their max rear package available last week...it’s 1500 lbs per side....I hope they start working on a bow bag....Max needs it! Plus a lot of lead!

Interesting; I'll check it out - might be too late though

What's your current max setup?



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[MrWick]

Interesting; I'll check it out - might be too late though

What's your current max setup?



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Even though we still have quite a bit of fine tuning to do, current setup is all 3 factory bags full, 200lbs lead under each back bag, fly high 750 under each side seat with 200lbs lead under each of those bags, 200 lbs lead under each side of the windshield area, 400lb bag in the center windshield walkway as far forward as we could get it, and 100 lbs of lead under the front center seat cushion. Surf left: surf tab at 55, center tab at 25 to 30, speed 12 to 12.5, drained off side rear bag down to 80% to clean up wave. Basically the same for goofy except the surf tab was 60 and center tab was 35, also drained down rear off side rear bag to about 80% to clean up the face of the wave. The Max is a little tricky to get set up. We struggled to get even a halfway decent wave until we started piling weight in the bow area..... this forum is great help!

[Humbucker427]

Even though we still have quite a bit of fine tuning to do, current setup is all 3 factory bags full, 200lbs lead under each back bag, fly high 750 under each side seat with 200lbs lead under each of those bags, 200 lbs lead under each side of the windshield area, 400lb bag in the center windshield walkway as far forward as we could get it, and 100 lbs of lead under the front center seat cushion. Surf left: surf tab at 55, center tab at 25 to 30, speed 12 to 12.5, drained off side rear bag down to 80% to clean up wave. Basically the same for goofy except the surf tab was 60 and center tab was 35, also drained down rear off side rear bag to about 80% to clean up the face of the wave. The Max is a little tricky to get set up. We struggled to get even a halfway decent wave until we started piling weight in the bow area..... this forum is great help!

Wow...

Just so I'm clear, you have 6,200 lbs of ballast in your Max and you're running 12 -12.5 mph? First, is the 6,200 lb number really correct, and second, what RPM are you turning to push that load at 12.5 mph?

[MrWick]

Wow...

Just so I'm clear, you have 6,200 lbs of ballast in your Max and you're running 12 -12.5 mph? First, is the 6,200 lb number really correct, and second, what RPM are you turning to push that load at 12.5 mph?

So reality is the factory advertised 3k is more like 2700 give or take. The fly high 750’s are really 640 full, we are probably getting 550 to 600 out of them, the fly high 400 is 350.....lead values are right on.... I didn’t mention the 300 of lead we moved to the surf side of what ever side we were surfing.....that is a “ close estimated “ 5650 lbs. rpms at 12mph are 3500/3600ish and 12.5 was 3700/3800 ish. This boat has the 440 with 15x13 prop. Nebroncrider has been surfing my dialed Supreme v226 with a GSA system....it has just about as good of wave as you can get without blowing 125k plus..... there is a lot of praise out there on the Max’s wave. Both he and I thought it would be a similar size wave as my boat and have push.... the potential is there I think, but it comes at the cost of lugging around a bunch of weight

[bobbyz91]

The trays are deep enough to hold all the life jackets, ropes, buoys you would need and you can still access them when the ballast is full or empty. Again, I have used other boats with "subfloor" ballast, but even in those, getting items out of the rear storage is NOT easy, especially if you don't have good dividers in them.

[Prospersigman]

So reality is the factory advertised 3k is more like 2700 give or take. The fly high 750’s are really 640 full, we are probably getting 550 to 600 out of them, the fly high 400 is 350.....lead values are right on.... I didn’t mention the 300 of lead we moved to the surf side of what ever side we were surfing.....that is a “ close estimated “ 5650 lbs. rpms at 12mph are 3500/3600ish and 12.5 was 3700/3800 ish. This boat has the 440 with 15x13 prop. Nebroncrider has been surfing my dialed Supreme v226 with a GSA system....it has just about as good of wave as you can get without blowing 125k plus..... there is a lot of praise out there on the Max’s wave. Both he and I thought it would be a similar size wave as my boat and have push.... the potential is there I think, but it comes at the cost of lugging around a bunch of weight

I would love to see some video and photos of the surf wave with 5650-6200 pounds of ballast...got some you can share with us??

[MrWick]

I would love to see some video and photos of the surf wave with 5650-6200 pounds of ballast...got some you can share with us??

Nebroncrider will have vids to post up....

[TheMirror]

Pardon my ignorance, who is this nebroncrider you speak of?


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