How best to weight the 216 direct drive for wake boarding

[Kevin_B]

Ya my dad has a 2005 216 and my bro and I weight it using a large sack, forget how many #'s in the rear trunk and then we had two side engine sacks and we would place one up in the bow and another behind the engine box. Pretty good wake, clean just didn't seem to be as lippy as my 90 Sport with same weight, different configuration though.

[wcherashore]

many have mentioned putting a sack in the rear locker... Although this and the ski compartment seem like the logical choices for water weight, the rear locker in these boats (like my 2000 Air) is above the rear tanks. This is important to consider because adding a sack in the locker will be directly above the hard tanks on a floor without reinforcement. This can cause the hard tanks to collapse and crack.

Is everybody reinforcing the floor in their trunk or are they unaware of this?

[wcherashore]

any concerns about putting a sack in the trunk on top of the hard tanks? I have heard this can collapse the tanks...

Also, I am considering putting a rear seat sack in the locker and tube sack on the floor behind the engine. Many of talk about using the 600 lb sack behind the engine which I assume is the rear seat sack... does this fit here?

I have a 2000 air which I believe is the same as the current 216?

[CD]

I think the boat should work for you as well for a long time, this was proven to me one year when i had the opportunity to pull some riders sponsored by Hyperlite and one of them was a newer rider but was an up in comer, this kid could really ride and was getting huge air behind a prostar 190 with one fat sack only and a few bodies. We asked him what kind of boat he had at home and we were all so blown away by him because he had been practicing behind an 18ft runabout with a small outboard motor. That boat had no wake and this kid had learned to edge hard...when he would ride behind any tournament boat he would fly. As far as i know he didnt go on to be in thre top ten or anything like that but he could outride 99.5% of the population behind boats with really no wake.