New Fi21 on Centurion's Boat Builder

[prorider17 30]

Did it get past me, or has everyone else already seen the Fi21 on centurion's website boat builder? Looks nice!

[Troy 234]

I don't see the Fi21. just the Fi23

[Cwazy1 89]

It was up there for a day, its gone now. 

[wheels 151]

If you go into design a boat from the home page then press on the models you can pick fi21

[Cwazy1 89]

I lied, its still an option in the colorizer. 

It does show it without cats. Makes me wonder if its still an option for the smaller boat. 

Edited September 12, 2017 by Cwazy1

[Darkside 248]

Cats is now an option on ALL centurion.  

[NW Boat Sports 232]

IIRC, CATS is not an option on the Fi21

[Cwazy1 89]

12 hours ago, NW Boat Sports said:

IIRC, CATS is not an option on the Fi21

I'd assume it has to do with the fact that cats is the most minor adjustment on the new hulls and with the short length of the 21, it makes even less of an impact to be worth the complexity of manufacturing it into the line as a potential option. 

[Darkside 248]

Cats is HUGE for wakeboarding!  Super easy to clean wake without moving people or adding weight.  

I agree with last knob to turn while surfing.

[Cwazy1 89]

3 hours ago, Darkside said:

Cats is HUGE for wakeboarding!  Super easy to clean wake without moving people or adding weight.  

I agree with last knob to turn while surfing.

I have no experience dialing in any boat for wakeboarding, but with the new '18 hulls, you shouldn't need to clean up any side of the wave with cats, the hull produces a clean wake on both sides from what I've seen on a '18 257. 

[Darkside 248]

5 hours ago, Cwazy1 said:

I have no experience dialing in any boat for wakeboarding, but with the new '18 hulls, you shouldn't need to clean up any side of the wave with cats, the hull produces a clean wake on both sides from what I've seen on a '18 257. 

Cats compensates for 4 people on one side and 1 person on the other.  

The hulls produce a good symmetrical wake if weight is ballanced.  Cats allows you to clean the wake when it is not ballanced, without adding or removing ballast, or having people move around.

[NW Boat Sports 232]

Had to rescue a boat the other day in the proto Fi 23, I had a few minutes to play around with the wake boarding wake. Achieved a clean wake boarding wake downriver going 18 MPH with no ballast, river is running +/- 1 MPH so safe to assume clean down to 17 MPH. At 22.3 MPH where I ride the wake looked amazing, with some ballast it would be out of this world!! Waterski wake didn't look bad at 32 MPH, too! I would have taken pictures but too much debris in the river....

[NW Boat Sports 232]

Also, new Ri software update out. Dated 08-22-17. Here is what it fixed:

 

15MPH
Presets actually work /save
Center and Port ballast tank timers were switched... internal component was messed up.

[wheels 151]

44 minutes ago, NW Boat Sports said:

Also, new Ri software update out. Dated 08-22-17. Here is what it fixed:

 

15MPH
Presets actually work /save
Center and Port ballast tank timers were switched... internal component was messed up.

What do you mean by center and port ballast timers were switched? And 15mph?

Edited September 14, 2017 by wheels

[NW Boat Sports 232]

I don't know about the 15 MPH. I can venture to guess that it has something to do with the plates retracting at 15 MPH?

Sounds like the Center and Port timers needed to be flip flopped..

[Lak3surf3r 714]

SOme of the Ri237s (like mine) had the port and center timers backwards. filled the opposite one that you touched.

[NW Boat Sports 232]

Ramfill gates will open until 15 MPH, then they will shut. This is better for the Ramfill seals...

[CO Surfer 289]

Can you explain that statement more?  Pretty sure I have a Ramfill inlet valve that is leaking into the boat.  Looks like a seal issue to me.  Is this a problem caused by filling at a speed greater than 15-20 mph?

[carguy79ta 67]

CO surfer..how much leaks into the boat .approximately..  

[NW Boat Sports 232]

4 hours ago, CO Surfer said:

Can you explain that statement more?  Pretty sure I have a Ramfill inlet valve that is leaking into the boat.  Looks like a seal issue to me.  Is this a problem caused by filling at a speed greater than 15-20 mph?

The gate is more prone to catching the seals when opening and more likely closing at 20-25 MPH. The square seals do a great job of sealing but when you have that much water pressure running passed them at 25 MPH, the Valterra gate can catch the lip of the seal jamming it up...

Yours sounds like a seal issue. Just have your dealer replace the entire gate under warranty.

There are two kinds of seals. The rounded ones used on the old Drainmasters. They don't get caught by the gate but they leak. The square seals are what come from the factory. They don't leak a drop but they can be prone to getting caught by the gate over time or at higher speeds or a combo of both. 

Edited September 15, 2017 by NW Boat Sports