Quote Originally Posted by rhouse181 View Post
Think you have the nose too high... I ran into this issue with my stock Kaiyen with only a driver in the boat when first starting out. The wave looks big, but it's all right off the swim platform and lacks push. Autowake had no clue what to do and would just drain ballast everywhere and I got super frustrated.

Turn off auto wake, fill everything up 100%. Use the centerplate to force the nose down by bumping it down 5% to 10% or so. The wave will look smaller from an amplitude standpoint, but it will be longer and surf with more push. Boards make a big difference too, so if you are riding a stock wave you need a fast board.

As everyone said though, you will have fun... start carving and eventually drop the rope. But you will yearn for more. I'm at 700 lbs of lead in my Kaiyen evenly distributed with just my wife and 2 young kids in the boat which seems to be a good balance for us. But every time we have extra passengers, the wave stacks even more. The boat handles chop a million times better with the extra lead, so there are some side benefits of static ballast as well.

Don't get frustrated and just manually play around with settings to find your sweet spot. Good luck!
ok, ill try that my lead comes on Monday. I just got the new prop going to put that on today and maybe I will try to place the 500-pound fat sac I have from my parent's little boat up near the bow to see if that helps while I wait on my lead to come in

as far board go I have a

Liquid Force Primo 4'10
Hyperlite Broad cast 4.8

my girl is 115 pounds and Im 190 maybe these boards are two smalls for me ?