Do you add extra ballast to surf your G23?

[Tallredrider]

Just curious how much weight additional you guys are adding to surf with. For me, I am plenty happy with my stock wave.

[nyryan2001]

This weekend surfing 2850lbs OEM + ~400lbs lead and extra batteries, + ~1000lbs in the surfside trunk. 2800rpms, 11.7mph amazing wave.

Tall, I think if you experienced the Buxton Marine Colston plumbed setup... And how flawless it works with 1100s in the trunks... You'd want to run extra weight.

[sgresham]

I have a 2016 G25, and the stock ballast is fine, but it is so much more fun with 750s in the rear lockers. I run it at 11.7 to 12 completely full. I also bought my boat, and had the extra sacs installed at Buxton. Top notch!

nyryan, where did you put the 400lbs of lead?

[Whitetail15]

I only run 200 lbs of lead under seat by sub speaker. We usually only have 2-3 passengers, but this weekend had 8 passengers evenly spread threw out the boat. Wave was noticeably bigger and longer.

[Neverenough]

This weekend surfing 2850lbs OEM + ~400lbs lead and extra batteries, + ~1000lbs in the surfside trunk. 2800rpms, 11.7mph amazing wave.

Tall, I think if you experienced the Buxton Marine Colston plumbed setup... And how flawless it works with 1100s in the trunks... You'd want to run extra weight.

Pics??

[heel5man]

Following this thread as I'd like to know if we should do any weighting beyond factory on the 2017 G23 that we are fortunate enough to have on the way.


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[sgresham]

Following this thread as I'd like to know if we should do any weighting beyond factory on the 2017 G23 that we are fortunate enough to have on the way.


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I think the stock wave is great, but I notice a ton more push with the extra sacs in the rear lockers. The wave is also huge, and it really cleans up at about 11.7 mph with the added sacs. My thought was, "The lockers are there for something!"

Usually there are only two to three of us on the boat though. My wife rides stock ballast. She's about 120 lbs, but I really like the added sacs. I'm 6'3" and about 185.

[Evening Shade]

This weekend surfing 2850lbs OEM + ~400lbs lead and extra batteries, + ~1000lbs in the surfside trunk. 2800rpms, 11.7mph amazing wave.

Tall, I think if you experienced the Buxton Marine Colston plumbed setup... And how flawless it works with 1100s in the trunks... You'd want to run extra weight.

Ryan, I would like to how your Buxton Colston system works if you have pics. Just curious.

[nyryan2001]

Colston is one of the techs at Buxton, he is awesome.

Y valves after the port/starboard OEM pumps to 1100s. Fills and drains independently after or before the OEM bags. Fill from the bottoms, overflows tap into existing bilge thru hulls. No holes to drill.

works flawlessly nearly 600hrs on 2 Gs. Fill OEM ballast enroute to your spot. Flip valves start riding and the wave continues to grow.

only thing better would be True OEM integration of 1100s from the Linc, on their own pumps.

I'll post pics shortly

[nyryan2001]

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[Hogwild]

I think the stock wave is great, but I notice a ton more push with the extra sacs in the rear lockers. The wave is also huge, and it really cleans up at about 11.7 mph with the added sacs. My thought was, "The lockers are there for something!"

Usually there are only two to three of us on the boat though. My wife rides stock ballast. She's about 120 lbs, but I really like the added sacs. I'm 6'3" and about 185.

I have a 2015 G25, also from Buxton with the same set up in the rear lockers, makes a huge difference in surf wave performance IMO.....I usually run NCRS at 5 and Surf Vert on 3 at 11mph. Curious what your setting are at that speed? Thanks in advance.

[Tallredrider]

Some days I think that my NCRS doesn't even do anything. And my NSS adjustments on the fly hardly make a difference. I have to play with it a bit more. I can see hardly any change in it when I adjust those things. My 12 year old desperately needs a wave with less power, and I finally resorted to just going without ballast for her. I am also considering going back to some list.

I once added an 1100 to the floor of the boat and the wave became ginormous. It was a busy day on the small lake I live near and rides of any length of time required us to turn around into our own wave. Pretty much nobody could continue to surf when we crossed our own rollers. Just cruising down the lake lengthwise was fraught with multiple jetskis, tubers, and other obstacles that made us stick to the side where shorter runs were all that was possible. Having said that the wave become so big, I was a bit disappointed that it did not lengthen the wave, even going 12 MPH. I am actually looking to tinker the wave to make it a little less steep, as I am trying to land a 360 and that vertical wall of water is sort of harder on that.

[sgresham]

I have a 2015 G25, also from Buxton with the same set up in the rear lockers, makes a huge difference in surf wave performance IMO.....I usually run NCRS at 5 and Surf Vert on 3 at 11mph. Curious what your setting are at that speed? Thanks in advance.

I still run 5 and 0, but I will try 5 and 3. Did that lengthen the wave some?

[Hogwild]

I still run 5 and 0, but I will try 5 and 3. Did that lengthen the wave some?

For me the 3 setting seems to make the wave the steeper without being too steep, but I'm not going as fast as you. I'm gonna play with it some friday and try your settings, are you running with both extra locker sacs full?

[Neverenough]

Pics of the wave???