Wakesurfing with the 242X E-Series

[octavio3311]

Agreed. I love my boat. It's the perfect do-it-all boat.

I'm not knocking the 242x at all - other than that Bimini, it's a beautiful sweet boat. It's just - I was hoping that Yamaha would've went all in and knocked the MC/Nautique crowd for a loop.
I absolutely love it when we can go ropeless and we go past the MC's and Nautiques. They look at you all confused.

 

[0627Devildog]

Those boats don't surf in 5-6' deep rivers.
My 212X does all summer long.

Why not? I surf my buddy's Malibu in that depth all day long. . .

 

[jcyamaharider]

Jeff Page , Owner of Inland surfer, Surfing Behind a 242X with a wake wedge on it!! Ballast setup was a little lighter then I wanted them to have but still a decent wave!!

https://www.facebook.com/inlandsurferofficial?ref=br_rs

 

[prorider17]

@jcyamaharider - how much ballast do you think he had? Stock 1,600lbs + ?

 

[jcyamaharider]

@prorider17 The 242X is stock with 1400 lbs of ballast and they had a 350 bag on the surf side cabin seat and a 350 bag on the surf side swim deck. They also had with them a 700 pound nose bag but they didn't use it. I wanted them to use a 750 bag on the cabin seat, that would have made a huge difference on wave height.


One other thing to point out, the video that Yamaha put out they are still going in a BIG circle. With the Wake wedge it is all straight line.

 

[dustinjean]

good to see them finally putting in more factory ballast maybe next year they will suck it up and add a gate/wedge etc. they should do the ballast centurion style where its built into the hull so they can actually put some hidden weight into it without killing all the storage