Smallest motor to pull.....

[bradtw191]

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I wakeboarded behind a pontoon with a 30, full throttle was just enough to stay up

 

[OSU Doc]

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Im using a 115 mercury outboard on a 16' 75 Baja... technique and prop make a huge difference. High pitch and an inexperienced plow dragging behind the plow = a no go.

 

[HM2107]

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Hey i am showing this video of me and some mates Skurfing (wakeboarding behind a boat but doing it on a surfboard) The boat is a 12ft aluminum boat with a 15hp yamaha, It gets us up fine and i we are all about 70-80 Kg which i think is about 150lbs - 180lbs. You can have fun on anything. I will let the video say the rest. And i know theres hardly any wake but its fun anyway.

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[l008com]

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Any youtube video that uses a GangStarr song as it's soundtrack is a good video in my book.

 

[brick75]

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This is great. What's next, pulling a wakeboarder with a trolling motor? Props to those of you that were able to pull this off with minimal equipment, but bottom line, if you want a good wakeboarding experience you're going to need more than a 20-30 hp motor on an aluminum boat.

 

[jeremy_nash]

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I wakeboard, ski and tube behind my 70hp johnson on my 16' bowrider. Does great, even with 4 or 5 people onboard.

 

[dave4881]

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Around 1969, I bought an old wooden 18' boat that had a 1959 Evinrude 35 HP outboard on it. I found that if I left my back foot out of the slalom ski, I could get up pretty easily. So, it doesn't take that much power if the skier knows how to adapt. I skiid many years with this technique, especially behind underpowered boats, which seemed to be the norm then. Now, I have a 17' Seaswirl Spyder with a 260 HP IO, which pulls strongly. Now, at 63, I'm not in shape so getting up is rather difficult, but I can still do it.