A short post and a video.
I have seen this trend around the lake in the past couple of years. Especially with the change in how every 15 year old kid on the lake seems to have an 80k wake board specific boat these days. These heavy boats cast off fantastic wakes.
Eventually someone came up with the idea to overload the boat with water, create the biggest wake possible and then surf it. There seems to always be some really large ski boat toiling along at an incredibly slow speed with a skier mere feet from the back ski platform.
NOTE: Do not do this behind anything other than an inboard boat! The pictures of hands and feet mangled by surfing behind an I\O (Inboard Outboard) are out there and horrible. Just google it if you need proof. If you see someone surfing behind an I/O boat, tell them to stop and let them ride your boat. Inboard boats have the propeller up under the hull and behind feet of wood and fiberglass where you can't hit it if you fall off.
Rick and I have pitched in on new toys to keep the Master Craft interesting to the old and young in the past. A couple years ago, we split possibly the most successful toy so far, the barefoot boom. This year we picked up on inland surfing, and I see why it's growing in popularity.
After some "engineering" to get 500 lbs of water in a water bed mattress in the ski well, and then a few plastic storage bins of at least 300lbs more on the sides, we loaded up the people. Kids, adults, kids acting adult, adults acting like kids, heck anyone we could find. The more weight and the more people to view the spectacle the better right?
Of course the fine ladies we had volunteer to go along actually detracted from the weight with their ethereal daintiness, but we couldn't say, "Nope, we need all the weight we can, you can't come because you make the boat lighter!" That would have been quite poor form on our part... ahem...
In the end, with all the water loaded, the boat pilot had to sit up on his knees to see over the bow since we were plowing through so aft heavy, and to get the surfer to match the speed of the boat we ran at about 2,000 rpm. The speedometer wouldn't even register it was so slow.
We struggled with learning the speeds and how to coast down the wave. Well, at least I did, but we had a boat load of fun surfing in a lake all weekend long.
It's not my best video edit, but the subject is really fun and we had fun filming it.
Inland Surfing, enjoy.
I have seen this trend around the lake in the past couple of years. Especially with the change in how every 15 year old kid on the lake seems to have an 80k wake board specific boat these days. These heavy boats cast off fantastic wakes.
Eventually someone came up with the idea to overload the boat with water, create the biggest wake possible and then surf it. There seems to always be some really large ski boat toiling along at an incredibly slow speed with a skier mere feet from the back ski platform.
NOTE: Do not do this behind anything other than an inboard boat! The pictures of hands and feet mangled by surfing behind an I\O (Inboard Outboard) are out there and horrible. Just google it if you need proof. If you see someone surfing behind an I/O boat, tell them to stop and let them ride your boat. Inboard boats have the propeller up under the hull and behind feet of wood and fiberglass where you can't hit it if you fall off.
Rick and I have pitched in on new toys to keep the Master Craft interesting to the old and young in the past. A couple years ago, we split possibly the most successful toy so far, the barefoot boom. This year we picked up on inland surfing, and I see why it's growing in popularity.
After some "engineering" to get 500 lbs of water in a water bed mattress in the ski well, and then a few plastic storage bins of at least 300lbs more on the sides, we loaded up the people. Kids, adults, kids acting adult, adults acting like kids, heck anyone we could find. The more weight and the more people to view the spectacle the better right?
Of course the fine ladies we had volunteer to go along actually detracted from the weight with their ethereal daintiness, but we couldn't say, "Nope, we need all the weight we can, you can't come because you make the boat lighter!" That would have been quite poor form on our part... ahem...
In the end, with all the water loaded, the boat pilot had to sit up on his knees to see over the bow since we were plowing through so aft heavy, and to get the surfer to match the speed of the boat we ran at about 2,000 rpm. The speedometer wouldn't even register it was so slow.
We struggled with learning the speeds and how to coast down the wave. Well, at least I did, but we had a boat load of fun surfing in a lake all weekend long.
It's not my best video edit, but the subject is really fun and we had fun filming it.
Inland Surfing, enjoy.
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