Quote Originally Posted by dakota4ce View Post
One thing to note and consider—to make the primo surf wave, the boat has to be at 9.5 degrees nose high and 3-4 degrees list with 20 or less of center plate(preferably zero), and 50 or so of surf plate (40-50 seems ideal).

Depending on how you have that weight in the boat, what attitude/angles you’re running at, and how much center plate/surf plate you’re using , the load on the motor can vary drastically at the same loading.

In other words, I could probably put 8000# in a boat and get it to run “easy” if the weight and plates were arranged as such to allow that.


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So when we did the "loaded" test we did use Flow 2.0 set to port side surfing. Then we did turn Autowake on with Flow 2.0 and I jumped in the nippy 55Deg water to give it a go and the boat did pump off a little ballast (less than 10% @ the bow & starboard side) to achieve Ideal pitch and roll. Me jumping out also took 230# out of the stern on the port side. With the speed set to 10.8 the boat was running 3400 RPM as well. Now I wasn't behind the wheel so I am not sure if it was bouncing to 35 or 33 at any point in the runs but my buddy said everything he saw was 3400.

I do understand and completely agree with your point that a boat can be manipulated to run "easier" due to ballast placement moving the CG. I was doing my best to put the weight (my friends) in place so that the boat would retain as much ballast as possible and still achieve the right angles.