Race City Marine

Was a few years ago, but I think it was within a few feet of the paddlewheel. Might have had to take up the floorboard (annoying but not tough) or really reach in a tight space to get it.

I haven't been able to find much of any talk about setups for the Ri. We are picking up the line so we had one out tonight. Default settings left a bit to be desired. Didn't have that much time to spend dialing it in at all. Full ballast, 60-90% surf tab, various center tab positions, and a little cats wasn't doing much. The best wave and it was actually pretty decent was when I did 40-50 degrees cats and 50-70% surf tab with various center tab positions, which didn't make a huge impact. Tons of push with those settings. What have people had success with? Seems capable of producing a nice wave, but the settings aren't entirely obvious.

This is if you want to upgrade to gps, which works way better.

I'll need to scare up some pictures but... 2016 S238....Lowered trailer about 3 inches (had to raise fenders to get more tire clearance, put on 14'' wheels instead of 15'', took out shocks in tower so it could fold down lower then shaved a little off the pivot point to allow it to lower even a little more. Then also had to take the tires down to about 5psi, but wasn't bad because I had an airline fixed to the trailer for each wheel that would all combine into one, then was routed up to the drivers seat in my car, so I could let the air out from up there. Tires were filled back up from an air compressor via a central fill point on the trailer. Took maybe 5 mins to go from 5 to 60 psi on all tires. Bimini and boardracks...they were an issue. 2017 S238....Lowered trailer only about 2 inches, no fender or tire adjustment. Then I have to drop the tongue all the way to the ground...like ALL the way and use a trailer valet to wheel it in. Bimini and board racks are a problem again. However I don't have to let air out of the tires. I also had to jack knife a 90 degree turn and put it though a door that's 106" wide giving me 2 inches to spare on each side. Needless to say most people were quite impressed. However now I mostly keep it outside as I got a more local storage place and I have other projects in the garage.

I routinely fit my '17 S238 and previously my '16 S238 under a 7' door. In and out take about 5 minutes. It will depend on which tower and which trailer. Some of the procedures, I'll warn you, are not for the faint of heart however.

Sweet color combo

Yea, I don't think they switch up connectors in the boats very often, so they prob just haven't sold one specifically for your boat & year. However likely they have it. Send them a picture of the first connector you find that is coming out of your airmar triducer. You just have to trace the wire back. With luck you won't have to unscrew your floor, which isn't a big deal anyway.

This should work, used it on my 07 and 16 supremes. Worked flawlessly, cheap and plugs right in. http://www.nauticlaugic.com/nl4.html

I had 1000's in there, but it pushed in the divider, which I could have fixed but didn't have the time to fool with it, so I went back to the 750's. I have sacs under the seats as well, so decided I really didn't need the extra weight of the 1000's. The boat would struggle all loaded up. Oh yea, and I had lead. Anyway, I do have the 1000's for sale!

Yea, always been my understanding that antfouling is bottom paint. Ugly if applied yourself. A good bottom paint job will cost thousands. Ceramic coating "wax" is supposed to be good stuff. Will it be a barrier against moisture, maybe. However based on what I've seen it will sure keep the hull of the boat much cleaner.

People that do that either paint the bottom or their boat looks so crappy when it comes out you could never tell if there were blisters. Not letting a Fiberglass boat sit in the water without paint is like boat ownership 101. I️ know very few out of hundreds of nice wakeboats around me that are floated on the water all year.

750's at least. However any more and you start running into issues with them pushing in the dividers.

Yea, pattern match are nice. Put them right below the windshield and they look best, it's legal as well.

Well no boat should be left in the water for any length of time without bottom paint. What's a "length" of time, who knows. I don't float mine for longer than two weeks typically. The warning is on the very front page of the manual, and is a typical guideline with fiberglass. Luckily, they are mostly just cosmetic.

Pictures?

Should be two poles on that boat. Ones with white straps go in front, black in the back. Strap goes over the windshield.

LOL, I'd call me "outside sales". Yea, I had one before and it was great, except for the water pooling. I'd stretch it so tight as to the point a couple threads in the nose popped one time. I didn't expect this one to self destruct if left out in the rain. He also said leaving my bimini up was bad for it. Well, c'mon. I'm just bitter I basically flushed 1K down the toilet.

Ha, I got an evolution cover and it literally lasted me THREE DAYS on my S238. Upon first rain it filled up with so much water, the tower loop ripped and then it ripped at the posts around the towers. He blamed user error...umm, like leaving the cover out in the rain?? This wasn't my first evo cover either. The cover needs poles, which make it no better than the factory cover. He was supposed to fix it, but that didn't happen, and then he was supposed to make it fit my new boat, which didn't happen. I gave up as I only have so much time to follow up with him. Three days it lasted and it was $1000. It's a great cover if you park on an uphill incline, raise the tongue all the way up, use the poles and never have to leave it at a dealership where someone else might have to put the cover on. Stick with OEM.

I had that livorsi on my 2016 S238 (h5 engine) and now have a standard one on my 2017, which I now hate, hate, hate. However part of that is because the current throttle will accelerate to full speed if I don't hold it back. Though still it's like I stepped back from a cell to rotary dial phone.

Yup, if you are loaded a lot in the back you want to have the center and front full. If you have them empty, the engine works harder, you can't see over the windshield, the boat is generally more irritating to drive, and the wave won't stay as clean. I tried it both ways many of times.

The problem isn't space but the fact it's tucked away and you don't hear it compared to other boats where it's near the drivers feet facing out towards driver I had a sealed sub in my old boat and the sub sounded much louder and deeper when it was pointed forward. When I was messing with it and turned it around facing the drivers feet, it seemed significantly weaker. I think it does better when it uses the whole area in there to rebound the noise.

Certainly no delay when accelerating with that boat

Looks good in the shop! I wish there was a matching interior color for the sky blue metal flake though. 1st world problems. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Haha. That's still the '16, hopefully it will be sold next week. My '17 hasn't been unwrapped as far as I know.

Crappy res, but hopefully this vid works. Surf Shesh