Any one has some good pictures of a big surf wake from their A20 or A22...??? Would love to see DavidG918 stacked out wave with modified deck and ballast…!!
Ya we need to see some good pics, and chattwake's surf wake too, I usuall have to e-mail my pics to myself from my phone because the phone let's me select a file size when sending via e-mail
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Sorry about the video size...didn't know I needed to video with my iphone sideways to have full image when uploading to Youtube. 2011 A22 with platform off. Stock tank full, 750 sac full, bow sac full, and 400lb sac across the back seat towards surfside, wedge down, and only myself driving and my g/f riding. We now have the wake bigger and longer with 400lbs of pop bags under the 750lb sac in the rear locker. Speed control set on 12mph and actual is about 11.8-12.1mph
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Joined: Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:40 pm Posts: 115 Location: Orlando, FL
I wanted to weigh in here as an owner of an A20, I have been playing around with the weighting of the boat every time I take it out. I think I have found something that works really well.
Everything chattwake said about the hull design is correct, you really do need to make sure you keep the boat balanced as much as you can. Here is what I found works amazing for a nice big wave with a good sized pit on our little A20s.
Starboard empty except the driver
Port side: Rear hardtank FULL Rear PnP 750lb bag FULL Extra 400lb V-drive sac sitting on floor resting against port side seats Extra 400lb V-drive sac in bow hugging port side long ways Guests sitting on port side seats starting from rear to glovebox
Other: 950lb Mushroom bag under bow FULL Center tank FULL
Bow: ~1,350lbs Rear: ~1,000lbs Center: ~1,000lbs
Obviously if you have a lot of guests you'll have to adjust how hard you load the bags up....but what I have above is what I do when it's just me and 2 others out there.
Ride speed is usually between 10.8 and 11.4 depending on the rider
The boat sits really low, listing pretty hard but it doesn't feel unstable because I have the boat sunk so low with the center weight. When I turn around to pickup swimmers though, I always turn the boat starboard so I don't dip the nose under as easily.
Here is a video of the wave with the above weighting. My buddy Josh is riding, filmed with a GoPro @ 720p wide angle 60fps. You can see he gets pretty far back in the pit and still is able to stay in it.
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