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Ok so I love our 2005 SAN 210 Team Edition, but after having a knee reco and then injuring my other knee I am surfing more and more and really loving it. Unfortunately as most of you know the old 210 isn't the easiest boat to weight for port side surfing.
We had a good wave dialled last summer but it involved sacs all over the seats and the boat listed so far to port water comes in the air vent and everyone on board felt nervous. Plus if just one person moved to the other side to be more comfortable the wake would wash out.
We started looking at potential boat upgrades that would surf better, but to find something like the nautique with similar option(zr6, heater, 380hrs) it was going to be a hefty upgrade cost.
I love the idea of NSS and if I could afford a new boat it would be a 2014 230 with NSS!
After reading every DIY Surf gate thread and then finally coming across a NSS style one I decided I had to try it.
I wanted to test it without modifying the boat at all so we removed the back deck from the brackets and used them to fashion a dodgy pine frame that we could start screwing a test plate to.
I then traced the shape of the hull and cut a plate out of 12mm HDPE plastic that went out the side of the hull approx 40mm and the bottom of the hull approx 30mm. This was based of videos and images online plus some of the awesome DIY threads that are already going.
The plate was fixed with a shelf bracket and some more pine to match the angle of the back of the hull.
I know.......very dodgy! but this whole process took a few hours including an hour trip to the hardware store!
A quick lake test that afternoon and it worked! A very surfable wake with stock ballast and 5 people in a level boat!
Now that this worked I went to a local marine workshop that is great with custom jobs and talked to them about making a removable brackets that used the existing transom mounts.
I told them I wanted:
Quick and easy to install and remove on the water.
No scews just one or two pins
No holes in the hull if possible
Ability for me to change out plates whenever I want to make up a new one
After a few phone calls we come up with this idea and they made it for me!
So far I have cut a small plate the only comes out the side for stock ballast, and a large plate more like the NSS size for when the boat is weighted up. The plates have eva foam on the face to close the gap between the hull and protect the hull.
I have tested it quickly and it was awesome!
I have two brackets for each side as I have discovered that the plate size and shape should vary depending on the amount of weight in the boat. I am really looking forward to playing with the plate shapes and tweaking the wake shape to be perfect. The best part of a manually removable plate is they can be any size or shape as you don't have to worry about retracting them in behind the side of the boat for normal wakeboarding, you just take them off.
Switching the plate takes less than 30 seconds.
This project has inspired me to spend some time and money on this awesome boat and hang onto it for a while!
I just received my order from Wakemakers to replace the rear tanks with 750's and add the integrated bow sac. I am also replacing the tired fill pumps with rule 1100's. I am hoping to work out how to piggyback the bow sac off the belly tank, has anyone done this? Oh and I didn't want to go with ballast puppies yet as current system has worked well for me so far and I don't want to mess with wiring/relays just yet.
Other plans before our summer really starts(from Australia) are new interior upholstery, add wrap around seat behind driver, flip up bolster seat, LED light bar on tower, LEDs throughout the cabin, replace 4 polk tower speakers with 1 pair REV10's. If anyone has any suggestions on this stuff I would love to hear them!
I'll get some proper wake pics when the new ballast is installed!
We had a good wave dialled last summer but it involved sacs all over the seats and the boat listed so far to port water comes in the air vent and everyone on board felt nervous. Plus if just one person moved to the other side to be more comfortable the wake would wash out.
We started looking at potential boat upgrades that would surf better, but to find something like the nautique with similar option(zr6, heater, 380hrs) it was going to be a hefty upgrade cost.
I love the idea of NSS and if I could afford a new boat it would be a 2014 230 with NSS!
After reading every DIY Surf gate thread and then finally coming across a NSS style one I decided I had to try it.
I wanted to test it without modifying the boat at all so we removed the back deck from the brackets and used them to fashion a dodgy pine frame that we could start screwing a test plate to.
I then traced the shape of the hull and cut a plate out of 12mm HDPE plastic that went out the side of the hull approx 40mm and the bottom of the hull approx 30mm. This was based of videos and images online plus some of the awesome DIY threads that are already going.
The plate was fixed with a shelf bracket and some more pine to match the angle of the back of the hull.
I know.......very dodgy! but this whole process took a few hours including an hour trip to the hardware store!
A quick lake test that afternoon and it worked! A very surfable wake with stock ballast and 5 people in a level boat!
Now that this worked I went to a local marine workshop that is great with custom jobs and talked to them about making a removable brackets that used the existing transom mounts.
I told them I wanted:
Quick and easy to install and remove on the water.
No scews just one or two pins
No holes in the hull if possible
Ability for me to change out plates whenever I want to make up a new one
After a few phone calls we come up with this idea and they made it for me!
So far I have cut a small plate the only comes out the side for stock ballast, and a large plate more like the NSS size for when the boat is weighted up. The plates have eva foam on the face to close the gap between the hull and protect the hull.
I have tested it quickly and it was awesome!
I have two brackets for each side as I have discovered that the plate size and shape should vary depending on the amount of weight in the boat. I am really looking forward to playing with the plate shapes and tweaking the wake shape to be perfect. The best part of a manually removable plate is they can be any size or shape as you don't have to worry about retracting them in behind the side of the boat for normal wakeboarding, you just take them off.
Switching the plate takes less than 30 seconds.
This project has inspired me to spend some time and money on this awesome boat and hang onto it for a while!
I just received my order from Wakemakers to replace the rear tanks with 750's and add the integrated bow sac. I am also replacing the tired fill pumps with rule 1100's. I am hoping to work out how to piggyback the bow sac off the belly tank, has anyone done this? Oh and I didn't want to go with ballast puppies yet as current system has worked well for me so far and I don't want to mess with wiring/relays just yet.
Other plans before our summer really starts(from Australia) are new interior upholstery, add wrap around seat behind driver, flip up bolster seat, LED light bar on tower, LEDs throughout the cabin, replace 4 polk tower speakers with 1 pair REV10's. If anyone has any suggestions on this stuff I would love to hear them!
I'll get some proper wake pics when the new ballast is installed!
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