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ok so I went and demoed the RI today and after all the hype I've hearing and reading, not to mention its the new tow boat in the competitions I figured id have a new boat in my garage right now...... as it turns out that is not the case, I did like some of the new features my wife hated others, but the wave just did not compare to my fs44, we tried listing it and that was worse than the quick surf, im goofy by the way...anyhow tried the factory pro surf setting and was not impressed tried the settings off [ MY ri237 has arrived! ] post, not much better the only thing we didn't try was running zero front ballast which im now hearing is the way to do it...now don't get me wrong im not stating it wasn't a good wave or that we got it completely dialed in to a T, but from what I seen and know about ballasting a boat I just don't believe even with no front ballast it would have compared to what im used to more less surpass it. and the part that really spooked me was we were testing in a reservoir [ still deep water ] and we surf on a river at home, when I take my fs44 to the reservoir the wave is stellar, and a bit less on the river so in my mind, if the RI cant do better on this water what's it going to do at home ? this is just my take from my personal experience, im not bashing the RI by no means its just that today the FS beat it hands down.... but to be fair I did tell the salesman id be more than happy to give it another try if he got it dialed better, but next time im bringing my boat too for him to see what im talking about. P.S. yes the RI did have the pro surf ballast package with all the PnP bags.... so let me know what your guys think on this....
