I'm new to the forum and bought my 1st surf boat in the Spring of 2018 (2018 Moomba Craz), and love it! This is my 6th boat; and I truly believe for the money you will not find a better boat in quality & build, and I have friends with Malibus, Mastercraft, and Nautiques for reference. I pretty much agree with Stazi & Snowslydder assessments, as does my Moomba dealer. I have a stock boat with 200 pounds of lead ballast under the FatSacs in each rear locker, and 100 pounds under the FatSac in the bow full time, for a total of 3500 pounds of ballast (usually have 6-8 people in the boat too). The surf instructors at me dealer said not to use the auto wake mode while surfing, they told me to fill up all the bags except maybe the non-surf side (90%), and run the wakeplate full Up (not deployed) at a speed of 10.8-11.5 or so, and surf tabs in the 50-60% range depending on regular or goofy (60 for goofy side surfing). This all works great for our family; I'm 6' 4" and weigh 210 lbs, and have no problem surfing 10' or so off the swim deck. My girls are in the 110 lb range, and I would say they can go back 15-20'. The wave is pretty steep and thus has great push, but I can also ease back carefully so I can build more speed when trying tricks. This is just the new guy observation, and I appreciate all of the advice on this forum thus far. Just wanted to talk the fella out of giving up on his Moomba too early, don't sell it!!