Hey all I just finished a prototype surf gate for the lightning hull. I have to say I am extremely impressed with it. We bought this boat before getting into surfing, and knowing very little of hull designs. I was really bummed when we started to surf and found it very hard on this boat. Those little crevices in the corners of the boat were definitely a disappointment to surfing. Hopefully this fixes that problem. We have not tried it out yet as the air temp was a little cold for my wife to want to get in the water here in northern Minnesota. I want to give a shout out to @stoked@ for his write up on surf gate 2.0, this motivated me to try this. I made this thing in about ten minutes from scrap wood. I plan to let me wife be the first to surf it today. I hopefully will post that video later tonight. I did make a video showing the different wakes with and without the surf gate. Check it out, let me know what you think. I did 12 inches of actual gate at 20 degrees.
https://youtu.be/8EN9PQixpJs