Quote Originally Posted by 08LSV View Post
18mph for us as well is the slowest reasonably clean speed. I usually have to bump the wake plate around to keep it clean though.
Yup ^^^ 18 it is. 15 is a fight, feels like the boat is on the fence if it will plane or not, I could at times get one wake cleaned up but not a speed I'd run at for boarding. 18 really is about a slow as I can go and get a decent clean wake, although it is a bit touchy at times and one side or the other will wash out some. On the bright side when it is being fussy it seems to clean up on the side the boarder is on so they have a good take off wake but a bit washed out for landing, but for us non-pros it works just fine. I do prefer around 20 myself, sometimes 21-22 depending on how much self propelled ballast we have onboard... 18 I use for times I am feeling froggy and know I am going to bite it, so set the cruise a bit slower so it hurts a bit less