Quote Originally Posted by Shoebox View Post
I went on a demo of a 2018 Axis A22. It's cool to see the new boats, different newer tech, etc. But it also made me realize that a $95k boat doesn't throw a significantly better wave than my Mondo.

I got the second set of tabs completely installed today, and took it out for a test surf. These smaller tabs worked better than the GSA-style tabs I made first.

I had them set to 23° max deploy angle. On both the regular and goofy sides I had to bump them up from max. I'm going to try the 18° lower mount position to see if the wave is good at max deploy of 18°.
With enough displacement and a decent device such as the tabs you just fabbed, a wave is a wave. People don’t always cite “a better wave” as the reason they would buy a newer, more expensive boat. You could put tabs on a 1975 Century Arabian and sack it out and get the same result.

There is often an ongoing assault on newer boats (usually with a mention of their price) from people with older boats. The fact is, with enough ingenuity, dedication, weight you can make a nice wave on most any boat. It’s not magic.

New boats offer a ton of things that people want that aren’t wave related. And they often need dialing of their own to work well as well.