2012 230 NSS owners

[nautiques4life]

Winter is coming, and usually that means time for upgrades/projects. My dealer offered 20% off labor last January and I'm hoping they'll do the same this year.
Question is, those of you that have retro fitted the NSS on a 2012 230, or I guess a '13 230 (I think that is the last year of the same hull), would you recommend it? Is it really worth the almost $3000 price tag? Is the surf wake really that much better than my 1100's in the rear?
I mostly wakeboard, but will usually do a single wakesurf pull too, and more and more friends are preferring to surf over wakeboarding. I plan to keep the boat probably 5 years, just wondering if I can justify that big of a price tag. Thanks in advance for your thoughts/suggestions.

[cedarcreek216]

I don't know if the wave will be any better than your 1100's in the rear but it could be easier to set up and switch sides and so one. The benefit will be you will be able to use more of that weight then you do now. Meaning you can fill the non-surf side more with NSS so you ultimately should get more dispersion. Then to switch surf sides you will already be filled and just change NSS. Where I think you will recognize the biggest difference is resale. I think it will sell in no time with NSS and will be a tough sell with no system.

[jonsquatch]

If you have 1100's on both sides that you run mostly full for wakeboard and drain one and stuff the other for surfing then being able to fill both 1100's and use the NSS might give you a better wave, if you run your boat fully slammed with sacks laying all over the boat to get it dialed then the NSS won't beat the wake but it will be a lot quicker and easier to setup.

I have a 2012 210 but added the NSS. We surfed occasionally before adding it because it took a long time to set up to surf but since adding it we surf pretty much every time out and it allows us to surf in the normal rotation if desired. Its a huge time saver since you can work through your normal good water rotation and at the end someone who only wants to surf can get a quick set in before you go back through the rotation rather than sitting and waiting half a day to get a set and without grinding the day to a halt. If all it takes is a couple of button presses to switch between sports you can top off the tanks and be ready to surf before you have the riders and ropes switched and the wakeboard in the rack, not so if you have to wait to top off and drain 950 lbs of ballast on the off side and move people. And if you need to do one set regular and one set goofy you don't have to stop for lunch between sets you are ready to go before the riders can switch places. If the water is still good enough to wakeboard you can be ready to go by the time the ropes are switched and the gear is on.

It also makes life a lot easier when you don't have to point out that person x weighs enough more than person y that I need x to sit at place z or it will screw up the wake, if I have too much weight on the wrong side I can drain some from that side and wake is still pretty good and nobody sleeps on the couch.

For me it was totally worth it since my wife and I surf different sides we both get to surf a lot more than before, and it makes it a lot easier to get the regular surf wake decent and I feel comfortable surfing whenever I want since I don't have to hand over a heavily leaned boat to someone else to drive and it takes the anxiety down several notches when surfing in busy water conditions.

[scarbs]

We added NSS to our 2012 210 in the spring and we LOVE it. To us, it was worth every penny. My whole family is goofy or left handed except for me. NSS makes it so much easier to switch. We have 1100s in each rear locker and the integrated bow sac up front. I fill everything full and then back off the non-surf locker by about a cycle. When we switch sides, I just fIll the low bag with a cycle and drain the full bag by a cycle. Like jonsquatch said, it's ready to go by the time you switch out boards, riders, etc.

And like CedarCreek said, I think you'll recoup the investment on the back end. It seems like the non-NSS boats with Linc 2.0 are sitting on the market longer than those with NSS.

[Miljack]

I have surfed a 230, both with and without the NSS. The NSS surf wave has more "push" than my non-NSS equipped boat (ballast of Sumo 900's + stock and Arrow sack)
We didn't have that much time with the NSS 230, but I was able to surf back ~20' from the transom and still have the push to stay with the boat. We had only 2 people on the boat at the time (maybe 300 #) and I don't remember how much ballast or how we had it configured.
My $0.02 is you'll get back most of the money spent to install the NSS when resale time comes.