We’re only going 12mph max and it’s easy enough to dump weight if needed. To those saying it’s unsafe/over the weight limit This boat wasn’t made for this so of course it’s outside of its stated parameters. 11/12 mph seemed to be best, maybe a hair faster will produce a longer wave. We started slow around 9mph but to get the wave to smooth out we found that a little faster is better. Too much in the back cases is to lose some displacement. In the future I would move weight to the front to balance it out. QUICKSHIFT WAKESURF WAVE PICS FULLthe bags weren’t 100% full so it’s tough to say exactly how much extra weight we had but 2 people in the boat plus the bags we probably had about 2500lbs give or take. We had 3 people on the boat each weighing about 160 Lbs. QUICKSHIFT WAKESURF WAVE PICS DRIVERWe put the wave shaper right below the water line on the driver side to make a wave on the opposite side. We didn’t fill all the bags, we put a 600lb on the back seat, 600 in the front and 1000 in the back next to the driver seat (also towards the back. I probably could have dropped the rope but I didn’t want to have to start again if it didn't have enough push. So, as it turns out, I have acquired some fat sacs (2x400lb and 1x155lb) and a pump from a gentleman on Craigslist, and now we are eager to test things out and see what is possible in our little Utopia.Īnyone else? Definitely looking for advice on ballast for our Utopia, and staying tuned to more from the OP or other Islandia owners. We all had a good laugh and went on with our normal wakeboarding fun. The observer (da Wife) thought something was wrong and killed the run. Turned out we pulled up my son on his wakeboard fine (he's always up easy, up even at slow speeds), but as soon as he saw the wake he started looping the rope around his arm trying to reach the surf wake, lol. everyone freaked out and I slowed back down to neutral because someone yelled something about our wakeboarder. a surf wake! I glanced back and couldn't believe it. we pulled up our wakeboarder and held speed at 10mph. With one 120lb person in the starboard bow seat, a 150lb driver, and four people totaling about 625lbs gathered on the starboard side of the bench seat and sun deck/engine cover. No pictures or video taken (of course.), but yesterday we had friends out with us on our little Utopia, enough for a little ballast test.
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