Hey
@Travp, the good news is your 75% there with your boat. The other 25% isn't all that difficult it just takes a couple things to get you the rest if the way.
As others have mentioned, the key to surfing any Yamaha is to get it to list (as in lean) surf side and weigh down the rear corner. Stock ballast just isn't quite enough to surf well. I managed to go ropeless with comparable to stock ballast and no shaper on my AR240 but it requires some trickery and it's a challenge to stay in the very small pocket. The WakeBooster with a stock boat reportedly makes this more manageable but again it's phenomenally better with more ballast in the right place.
I run the same transom ballast bag from
Gantlin Products and their Wake Wedge that was mentioned above. The combination of the two are in my opinion a unbeatable combination in wave quality. Other options are proving themselves to be quite good as well. As
@BigAbe75 eluded to, I am a watersports dealer, and as such I've been able to surf many boards on my wave. Surfing and learning to surf are SO much more fun when you have a wave you can actually play around on. The choice in boards also expands exponentially.
My company is Transom Watersports, I am a dealer for Slingshot, O'Brien, and JetPilot. I sell the very same Slingshot Coaster board that Yamaha includes in its WakeBooster package, minus the Yamaha branding. The board is our best seller and truly worthy of the hype, but there are many great options with the waves more and more Yamaha's are producing.
Shoot me a message if you would like more info on any of our boards or any other of our products. We have more inventory arriving in the coming months for spring/summer and great deals on our few remaining 2019 items. Contracts require me to publicly list products at set prices, but I can offer my best pricing thru individual/private sales. Hit me up anytime.
Best gear behind any boat for wakeboarding, wakesurfing, wakefoil, wakesurffoil and SUP. Life is better behind a boat with Transom Watersports.
www.transomwatersports.com