WAjetboating, the boat looks A+. You did a great job on matching the colors. How do you find it with a rider in tow? Does it create enough wake for the rider to get big air or should I be planning on filling the "fat sac"?
It's great for beginners and surface moves. Big air will require more displacement, which I haven't done yet. However, since the boat has the vertically mounted Mercury SportJet engine, there is TONS of room in the engine compartment to access either side of the inner hull. I can easily see putting 300+ pound fat sacs on both sides, just forward of the engine, sort of under and to the sides of the rear seats (which also happens to be the boat's CoG).
The storage locker is also available, and has a nice big door for "storage locker" style fat sacs to slip right in. Like the above location, this would keep the additional weight near the CoG for this boat, avoiding the planing problems that aft-only fat sacs sometimes cause.
Total rated capacity for the hull is ~1400 pounds so you'd have to be careful not to exceed that with fat sacs + passengers. It would be easy to add 1000 pounds of fat sac capacity, and with a couple of adults you could exceed the rating without realizing it.
We've tried wakeboarding with three big adults sitting on the sundeck and the wake increases noticeably. That's always an option to fat sacs - just invite more friends! <grin>
The company that makes that tower powder coats them in a variety of colors. That one happened to match the Seadoo blue almost perfectly. They also do the traditional polished (mirror) finish. We've been absolutely delighted with it and recommend it to anyone considering an aftermarket tower. I looked at everything and this was the best I could find.
Have fun!
