Wake too wide?

[R055]

Hey guys does my wake look too wide? The boat is a 2003 maxum 1900sr with a 4.3 mercruiser with quicksilver black diamond prop, the wake is really wide and edges if it are crappy too. How can I make it thinner and nicer edges?
I've attached the link to video from my Google Drive. It's in the wake folder.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6...DJ3eElaZUZ0dHM

https://drive.google.com/op

 

[GA_Boater]

No wake folder in your Google drive that we can see.

 

[rallyart]

Can't see the folder either.
If you are looking to improve the wake shape for watersports there are some things you can do. The width is determined by the hull and the speed. You can't change your hull but as you speed up the wake will narrow. Shortening the towing line will put you at a narrower point on the wake.
The froth on the lip of the wake has to do with the shape of the water coming off the transom. Moving weight back in the boat makes the wake steeper. Moving weight forward makes it smoother. Listing the hull to one side makes that side of the wake smoother with less froth.

 

[R055]

I've put new links, visible now?

 

[R055]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-...0NfQnJveVh3b00
New link this one works
My college drive was acting dumb so had to use my regular Google Drive

 

[GA_Boater]

They show now. No idea.

 

[R055]

Can't see the folder either.
If you are looking to improve the wake shape for watersports there are some things you can do. The width is determined by the hull and the speed. You can't change your hull but as you speed up the wake will narrow. Shortening the towing line will put you at a narrower point on the wake.
The froth on the lip of the wake has to do with the shape of the water coming off the transom. Moving weight back in the boat makes the wake steeper. Moving weight forward makes it smoother. Listing the hull to one side makes that side of the wake smoother with less froth.

Can you look now? My tow line is already pretty short, seems like the first 10 feet look like a normal wake that everybody's boat makes and then at 10 feet my wake just goes out sideways, I was hoping ask I need is a new prop or something. I was going 20mph

 

[oldjeep]

Um - drive in a straight line, what the heck are you trying to do to your rider? Looks like you have been pulling too many tubers

 

[R055]

Um - drive in a straight line, what the heck are you trying to do to your rider? Looks like you have been pulling too many tubers

I'm auctally the rider in that video lake tapps is glacier water that just got filled 2 months ago so everyone else was still too scared to go swimming yesterday. My friends 21 foot bayliner that's wider than my boat makes a thinner wake than mine so it can't be the hull

 

[southkogs]

... so it can't be the hull

Actually, it can. Hull wake is sometimes are as much (if not more) about design than size.

Nothing's standing out as unusual in the videos to me, but it is tough to tell with all the turns. What's alarming you about the wake size?

 

[R055]

Actually, it can. Hull wake is sometimes are as much (if not more) about design than size.

Nothing's standing out as unusual in the videos to me, but it is tough to tell with all the turns. What's alarming you about the wake size?

It seems extremely wide? Atleast compared to all the i/o's I've been on

 

[southkogs]

That boat is a little beamier than mine is, but the wake in the video doesn't look hideously huge. the boat is handling well, and you're getting good speed out of it right?

 

[R055]

That boat is a little beamier than mine is, but the wake in the video doesn't look hideously huge. the boat is handling well, and you're getting good speed out of it right?

Haven't gone wot yet because of how choppy the lake was been from all the boats, might not be able to get some nice wot runs till I go to Eastern Washington for the 4th, all the lakes their are empty as soon as 4th of July is over and I get the lake to myself July 5th-7th this year.

Only gone to about 35-40 before the boat starts falling off the waves and I don't like crashing the hull off big waves.

 

[oldjeep]

No Title

You can't tell anything useful from that video since the boat is doing s-turns through the whole thing. If I did that in my Malibu the wake would look just as bad.

FWIW this is my old 2005 Bayliner 195 60ft rope at about 15-18MPH, does that look too wide to you?

 

[R055]

My rope is shorter and the wake right where I am is wider than yours , but it might have been because of the turns. I'll have to go out again but tell whoever I let drive to go straight, thanks

 

[oldjeep]

Definitely want straight driving and driver should both signal rider when he is going to turn around and make sure rider isn't cutting before turning. Good way to get hurt if the driver tightens up your rope all the sudden.

 

[R055]

Another thing I just remembered was I had 60% of the weight of the riders in the bow, this probably had a big effect. I'll have to give it another try and put the big people in the back and go straight this time.

 

[gddavid]

I doubt you were going 20 mph, the angle of your board suggests that you were going much slower which really washes out the wake and makes it wide. I would not move the passenger weight back either, that generally makes the wake bigger but more washed out if you can't keep the bow down. Finding a good driver can be tough if your friends aren't very experienced or you have different folks coming out each time. Focus on training up one or two friends that will be coming out with you regularly and your riding will be much more pleasant. On my boat it is easier to drive by rpm's rather than speed, the sweet spot will vary from day to day based on how much weight you have in the boat and coming in and out of turns as well, but overall I find it easier to drive to. (my boat and I are too cheap to justify a speed control system).

 

[oldjeep]

For speed - check it with your cell phone GPS

 

[R055]

Will do, thanks guys. Sadly I'm kinds the first one to get a bigger boat in my family/circle of friends so nome of them really know how to tow.