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First post for me on this forum. I am a Malibu owner (plz don't kill me...). I have an older DD that I use for skiing and sometimes wakeboarding. I would like to use it for some surfing for the kids. I can get a reasonable surf wave with tons of ballast but I don't like that much weight or listing my boat that far. I have teenagers and there is no way I want them driving with that kind of setup...so I'm looking into delayed convergence. I tried a surfgate system last year, but since my 'bu has a stepped hull it just sent out tons of spray. This spring I want to try an NSS setup. I searched the site and have gotten lots of ideas, but I have a couple of questions that I hope you can help answer.
1) My stepped hull angles down toward the bow instead of vertical. Will I need to put in spacers so that the NSS plate is vertical or will it be ok to have it at that angle (see pics). My thought is that if I have the NSS plate at that angle it will just divert spray upward.
2) I wonder if I would get a better wave if I had more plate out the bottom. There are 2-pictures of what area the plate could cover. Any suggestions? I will most likely start out manual gate and having a larger plate will definitely be a more difficult setup to move back/forth.
3) I plan to build a 3-plate system. The outer plates will be stable and secured to the swim platform (at least until I get it dialed in). I have read that you need to do 30mm down x 40mm to the side. Is this the general consensus?
Thanks for your help. I'm hoping to get building on the experimental unit this weekend.
1) My stepped hull angles down toward the bow instead of vertical. Will I need to put in spacers so that the NSS plate is vertical or will it be ok to have it at that angle (see pics). My thought is that if I have the NSS plate at that angle it will just divert spray upward.
2) I wonder if I would get a better wave if I had more plate out the bottom. There are 2-pictures of what area the plate could cover. Any suggestions? I will most likely start out manual gate and having a larger plate will definitely be a more difficult setup to move back/forth.
3) I plan to build a 3-plate system. The outer plates will be stable and secured to the swim platform (at least until I get it dialed in). I have read that you need to do 30mm down x 40mm to the side. Is this the general consensus?
Thanks for your help. I'm hoping to get building on the experimental unit this weekend.
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