What do you mean is the boat listed? I am pulling from the tower and it does get a lot better only when the rider gets outside the wake. I will definitely try again with less weight....but I thought I have read that
@JetBoatPilot was running the same amount of ballast with his 19 footer...maybe not as many people on board though. I have also ordered the TVW fins for my boat and not the L13 cone, but maybe I should switch that around first and try the cone instead. I dont know if the two are compatible.
By "listed" I mean listed to the side with ballast. The only way to get a decent (surfable) wave behind these boats. According to most forum members that surf.
There is still a discussion and a good amount of debate as far as how much the JBP TVWs help in shaping the surfable wave.
Personally, I think the TVW claims are kind of bs. The device currently remains untested and unproven, and personally I'm convinced JBP claims about TVW magic are massively overblown.
For example, while
@JetBoatPilot claims you can surf on both sides of the wave, but pushing the ballast to the side of the swim platform is what is done to shoot all of his surfing wave featuring videos. I can tell you someone like me with beginner skills needs the boat listed to surf ropeless, based on what I have seen thus far. I don't think it is going to change but I could be wrong.
The fact that those TVWs would be
incompatible with the L13 is mind boggling. Just to think about it, all the L13 does it increases the pump pressure and thrust but the gains are not huge at all I would say maybe 10-15% if that. It mostly helps eliminate cavitation and cavitation burn damage by increasing the efficiency of pump loading.
I can tell you based on my own first hand experience most of the factory-new Yamaha jet boat pumps can be made to generate 10-15% more thrust by sealing/porting the pump and the intake tunnel.
Would that make those incompatible with the TVWs?
(lol)
What do TVWs do in a non-L13 equipped pump? The L13 adds thrust and that, somehow, hurts the new steering?
I don't think I would want to run with a steering component that is in danger of falling apart due to more efficient thrust generation (we are talking 10-15% at the most, if that, not adding a supercharger to a n/a boat). What about deleting the ribbon as another modification that marginally increases thrust? Would that be compatible with TVWs?
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