How much weight is needed on a boat to wakesurf?

Question

How much weight is needed on a boat to wakesurf?

Answer 1

this is depending on what side you will pick to wakesurf behind.. about 3 of 4 people do it on the left side of the boat (the boat's port side)

each boat requires a different amount of weight in order to make the perfect wakesurfing wake so just experiment by filling a ballast if you have one or making all you passengers sit towards the back of the boat...

if youre going to use a ballast, make sure that only 25% of it is solid weight (like concrete or sand as opposed to a water ballast) if you have too much solid weight, your boat could sink, but if its just too much water-weight, your boat will be impossible to sink and will only swamp (fill with water to the surface of the boat)

make sure you know what your boat manufacturers weight restrictions are and guess from there...

good luck