SAN 230 Surfing Setup Summary Thread

[Hyong1005]

My kids liked the following :
Port side FULL

Everyone on the port side (so another 400-500lbs)

NSS at 0-1

Hydrogate at 1

Speed is 10-10.5

[charlesml3]

This past weekend I had the biggest crew to date on the 230 with 11 adults. A couple of points:

- With this many people on the boat, you HAVE to have a couple of people up front.

- The surf wake was big. And long. Bigger and longer than ever on this boat. Exactly what I expected.

- I didn't have to make significant changes. We had to go faster, of course. We were usually right around 11.7.

- I still had to add in a little Hydrogate for port-side surfing to clean up the lip. 2 is the number.

- One guy on the boat wants it STEEP so he jumped in with the Pebble and ran the NSS up to 5. It was seriously steep. I tried it too when I surfed. It's fun for a bit, but I was standing on the brake the whole time.

- As a side note: I had somewhere around 4500 pounds of water, shot and people on-board and the ZR4 had no trouble with this at all.


So this is far more people than I usually have on-board. Seems like 4-6 is more like it. Anyway, I think starting next season, I'm going to add another 500 pounds of shot bags to the boat. We're better surfers now and the boat can easily handle this. This will bring it to 1000 pounds of shot plus 2100 pounds of water for a total of 3100. I'm pretty sure I'll have to put 100 pounds of this in the bow, but I won't know for sure till the spring. It just doesn't make sense to do this now when we only have a few weeks left here.

-Charles

[thejean]

What are the biggest bags that can fit in the rear lockers of a 2014+ 230?

[thejean]

What are the biggest bags that can fit in the rear lockers of a 2014+ 230 while maintaining the factory hard tanks?

[thejean]

Removed rear hard tanks, installed 1100lb sacs
Added 650lb V sac from fly high under bow seats piggy backed off center tank.
Everything fills from the linc screen. Hard tanks reinstall in 15 minutes for resale.

Why not just add 750's or 900's instead? Seems you end up around the same total rear ballast either way...

[Andy1972]

Got any pics Charles

[wakemaker]

i have a 750 in mine(2017)and need to add bracing it started to bend in on the engine. i have 1200 of lead as well its all u will need i like the lead that way i keep my space

[cedarcreek216]

Why not just add 750's or 900's instead? Seems you end up around the same total rear ballast either way...

Space...the 1100 pound sacs don't take up much more than the stock hard tanks do, if any. So completely full with 1100 sacs you still have all your storage free.


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[charlesml3]

Got any pics Charles

I don't think I have any photos from that weekend with 11 adults onboard. However, here's a video with only 4...

https://vimeo.com/234373981

-Charles

[thejean]

Space...the 1100 pound sacs don't take up much more than the stock hard tanks do, if any. So completely full with 1100 sacs you still have all your storage free.


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Got a pic of that? I thought the hard tanks are on the sides, not below?

[charlesml3]

Got a pic of that? I thought the hard tanks are on the sides, not below?

I'm pretty sure they're L-shaped and are both on the side and below.

-Charles

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[charlesml3]

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I'm sure there are some people that think that's cool, but for me.... no way. Not even close. I'm done filling fat-sacs with a Tsunami pump.

[beamons]

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Where do you put the people?


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[thejean]

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No surf wake is worth that headache, IMO. Need a second boat to tow you when surfing!