Wake board questions...PLEASE HELP!!!

[mrivera7]

I am going to buy an 83 baja with a johnson 115 outboard.
It looks like a very shallow hull and im not sure if it is going to create a good enough wake to catch some air on the water.

What do you know about that?

If it will not creat a large wake, how can i make one? (parts,weighting options, fat sacks...whatever)

Thanks

 

[QC]

Re: Wake board questions...PLEASE HELP!!!

What model? Pictures? I am guessing if it is around 19 ft, that it will have around 15 degrees of deadrise and is very shallow. Also with the lightweight OB it will indeed leave a very small wake. Unless this thing is particularly cheap, I would pass for wake boarding. If it is the only choice, then weight/sacks will help. Also, excessive positive trim helps too. What you want to do is make it harder to plane and as it finally does there is a wake. If you trim out so far that she barely planes at all, then that will throw a decent wake. Might work well actually . . .

 

[FLWakeRider]

Re: Wake board questions...PLEASE HELP!!!

As usual, QC is pretty on par with his reply.
Drive by the darn boat and send some pictures.

 

[smitty1258]

Re: Wake board questions...PLEASE HELP!!!

ditto

 

[Utahboatnut]

Re: Wake board questions...PLEASE HELP!!!

Does it have a tower on it? If not I wouldn't be too worried just yet as you will never catch that much air from the transom anyways. You need both to really get big air, big wake and a tower or extended pylon. Fat sacks would probably be your best bet to increase wake size, then if someone wanted to slalom you could dump the sacks and have a nice wake for a slalom skier.

 

[FLWakeRider]

Re: Wake board questions...PLEASE HELP!!!

But, will fat sacs even help?
With a very shallow hull, you don't have that extra depth for the stern pushed deeper into the water.
That is why the back end of Mastercraft or any other wakeboard worthy boat, the stern is very tall and very flat. The deadrise is not as strong as most other V-hull runabouts (this sacrifices the soft ride in rougher water), but that helps the boat plane better and have a bigger, cleaner wake produced.

Really, to even know if it is fat sac worthy, we will need to see some pictures. I am fairly certain that they will help, depending on where they are placed, but you can't just throw 500lbs on the stern and expect a miracle.

 

[Utahboatnut]

Re: Wake board questions...PLEASE HELP!!!

Good point FLwakerider, hate to advise on an unsafe situation. Especially with an outboard the splashwell would be prone to having the wake wash over it if it were weighted down much. You would have to be very cautious when slowing down that the wake didnt catch up to you. If you do end up buying it I would start with the trim suggestions above and go from there.