INACTIVE - GS22 Wakemakers rear factory ballast upgrade bags for sale

[jlee]

ExactFIT 620lb port and starboard bags as an upgrade from the factory pro-ballast from my 2020 GS22. Used about a dozen times. Decided I didn't want to fiddle with more nose weight to improve the wake.

$450 shipped.

[North Woody]

I've also got a 2020 GS22 with the Pro Ballast and have thought about upgrading to bigger rear bags. Reading your comment, does that imply that the additional rear weight requires more bow weight to optimize the wave with these? I sent you a PM to follow up...

[jlee]

Woody,

It does seem like the Wakemakers bags create a steeper wake, but in order for it to be longer, I found I had to add weight to the front. We often just have our family of 4 in the boat so I ended up having to add lead to the nose since I didn't want to mess with a bow bag. The boat stays on a slip at our condo so there isn't a good place to take the lead out and leave on the dock when we want to do something like ski. I think if I had a different docking setup, with somewhere I could leave the extra weight, the Wakemaker bags would make sense.

[kylant]

i have a '19 gs22. wakemakers used my boat to design the bags.
i agree. if they are full, the bow needs more weight than the belly tank provides.
i don't want to deal with lead, we ski more than anything. I have 300# of lead bags sitting in the garage. used them last year, but made the ski wake bigger and more firm. it is already firm enough.

so the solution I have come up with is to only fill the bags to about 70% and we run a little bit faster. I am at 11.8-12
I have the quagga filter setting engaged, so the ballast pump run times are longer. at 70% on the linc screen, the wakemakers bags are about 3/4 full

[mcosub]

Can you simply unplug the 350# bags and install these in their place without replumbing anything??? Im looking for something that uses the existing hoses and connectors without modification.

[jlee]

Can you simply unplug the 350# bags and install these in their place without replumbing anything??? Im looking for something that uses the existing hoses and connectors without modification.

You don't have to re-plumb anything. The hoses stay. It's just the connectors that are different.

[CVAGS20]

i have a '19 gs22. wakemakers used my boat to design the bags.
i agree. if they are full, the bow needs more weight than the belly tank provides.
i don't want to deal with lead, we ski more than anything. I have 300# of lead bags sitting in the garage. used them last year, but made the ski wake bigger and more firm. it is already firm enough.

I just purchased a GS20 and am thinking about adding the WakeMaker bags as it is usually just my wife and I out surfing. What type of weight needs to be added to the bow in addition to the factory ballast with the WakeMaker bags? We both surf goofy.