Anyone Try Long Boarding with a Paddle Board…?

[North Woody]

We had a little too much time on our hands this afternoon and thought about a few dumb ideas to try, and this one was at the top of our list: Trying to surf using one of our paddle boards behind our 2020 GS22. With our ballast full (we were just fishing a surf set), I set NCRS to 3, NSS to 2 and sped up to 11.8 just to try and lengthen the wave a bit, and we actually managed to find a decent wave. We’ll play with this more this as we are up at the lake all week, but does anyone have any suggestions for trying this? Here’s a pic from our start. I thought I could upload a video but I couldn’t manage to find an easy way to post it…

[MN Ryan]

That's how we got started into wakesurfing. We called it power-SUPing. We used an old Prostar 205. I keep thinking of trying it again now that we have a better wake.

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[Tchur1]

I will briny my 6'8" ocean surfboard out with us from time to time and its a blast. We have a mastercraft so different setting but I set it to the steepest setting and then bump the speed up to like 12.4. The wave is crazy long and its a blast. Plenty of push all the way through the wave and with a board that big you can maintain speed no problem.

[North Woody]

Well, my son and I went out yesterday afternoon to play around with this and we found a great set up that we will continue to fine tune. But for now, we dialed in the wave for our 12’ paddle board by using our standard wave settings (NSS=0 and NCRS=5), but with only 60% ballast all around and speeding up to 11.7mph. This gave us a super chill wave where you can just sit there all day long hanging out, or you can even walk back and forth a bit to drop back/accelerate forward in the wave. We’ll keep tweaking this, and my next goal is to get my wife to join me on the board for some doubles riding

Here are a few pics as we were messing around with the wave. It was only the two of us in the boat for this yesterday so we’re still playing with this as I still like to lengthen the wave a bit.

[Tchur1]

Curious if you tired full ballast, largest wave setting, and bumping speed above 12 mph? We have found that to be the best wave for huge boards on our boat.

[North Woody]

Curious if you tired full ballast, largest wave setting, and bumping speed above 12 mph? We have found that to be the best wave for huge boards on our boat.

We found that on our GS22, anything above ~70% ballast and using the highest wave settings for the 12' paddle board put us too close to the back of the boat and the faster speed didn't seem to lengthen it out enough. Using our current settings (NSS 0 and NCRS 5) and going 12mph required a lot of micro adjustments, so slowing down to 11.7 let us sit in the pocket comfortably with minimal adjustments and pretty solid push. I really thought that we would need north of 12mph, so we'll keep tweaking this and seeing how far back we can create a comfortable, surfable wave for cruising

[Tchur1]

Interesting! Glad you found something that worked. I love messing around on the longboards every now and then, such a fun change of pace.