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Hah! I guess I never looked at it like that, and would have sworn there is a difference in the bottom shape between the new 24 and 21 - I have literally crawled under those with a measuring tape. But it is possible I looked at it wrong, with the 240 transom recessed way further and no scupper box on the 212.
Hah! I have been way over 3,000 lbs, probably pushing 4,000 and it was okay but not great. My platform remote was getting wet, but I may need to list more aggressively.
Yea I'm not sure why the 24' has the bulge area in between the jets with the scupper but the 21' don't. I do notice the lifting strakes (I think that is what those are) on the side surfaces of the 24' keel goes all the way to the rudder where as the 21' stops a little shorter. Not sure why though lol.
I think this is potentially a brilliant idea! Sea anchor has been discussed but never in this context, TTBOMK.Seems like the right place to post this thought - as stated in the beginning of this thread, ballast, and a wedge or flap are needed to surf well. One thing that people keep mentioning is making a slow turn away from the surf side. From my fishing days I have one of those sea-anchors (small parachute for the water). Has anyone tried deploying one on the surf side of the boat? That would force us to turn away to track straight and have the added benefit to list the boat a bit more. For those of us surfing on a river not turning into shore is ideal.
If we can ever get good weather out here in the PNW I'll answer my own question and test!
I think to make it feasible it would have to run off of one of the mooring cleats. I've hear the hulls are thin on our boats, but the cleat seems pretty sturdy. I'll have to experiment with and without it and see if it worth the headache.
The cleat mounting sites are properly reinforced in the hull, there should be no concern there for strength.
If you do get to it, I think the @geohil idea of putting it on the surf side (only) is worth exploring! It could offset the turn and force the nozzle redirection towards the non-surf side, with some delayed convergence benefit possible as well.
Seems like the right place to post this thought - as stated in the beginning of this thread, ballast, and a wedge or flap are needed to surf well. One thing that people keep mentioning is making a slow turn away from the surf side. From my fishing days I have one of those sea-anchors (small parachute for the water). Has anyone tried deploying one on the surf side of the boat? That would force us to turn away to track straight and have the added benefit to list the boat a bit more. For those of us surfing on a river not turning into shore is ideal.
If we can ever get good weather out here in the PNW I'll answer my own question and test!
I'm sure eventually I'll end up with a Wake Wedge, but it is always fun to experiment. For now with the price of the boat, HydroPhase, additional ballast, and towable toys I'm feeling poor! Free was a decent enough motive to get me to try it. I built a wake flap just to tide me over until the coffers fill back up.
Wake Wedge works great with the '17 212x. I run the Cobra Magnum AKs too and it highly compliments the setup.
No wake wedge no turn no problem. 2100# of ballast I'm 6ft 200. The wave is a little crusty but that can be easily fixed. Does the wake wedge do a great job of that? Sure! Saying you can't straight line surf without it is simply not true.
