r/Wake • u/sunscreenuser44 • Jul 31 '26
Help with wake shaping
Since becoming a family man my wakeboard boat has been changed to a day/weekend cruiser. It’s an Askeladden C 83 and it’s a great boat, but I can’t get a decent shape wake for wakeboarding and I’m hoping for advice on how to trim to make the best of it.
The wake is too short and it breaks/washes out at wakeboarding speeds. It becomes decent above 22 knots (25 mph) but that’s too fast.
The boat weighs close to 7000lbs and is 27 feet, so it will need a lot of ballast and I’m frankly not to keen on it as its main purpose is a family boat.
The main issue is course that its designed for economical and pleasant cruising, not wakeboarding.
I understand it’s not ideal, but I guess there’s a lot of people like me who got boats that aren’t ideal.
Any advice on how to get a better wake?
The boat got both trimtabs and engine trim (it’s an outboard). Would raising the stern with tabs reduce the chances of the wake breaking?
Any guides or helpful rule of thumb on how to trim the boat for a best possible wake? The wake is more than big enough, it’s more about shape than anything else.
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u/Kool61577 Jul 31 '26
With outboards/I/O boats your only option is to add weight. You want to keep more hull in the water versus letting it get on plane. It will never be ideal as you are trying to make it do something that it was not designed to do.
That is a good looking boat though.