"The Wedge"

[ffmedic74]

Does anyone know if you can put a malibu wedge on a ski nautique? Is it possible from an engineering standpoint?

[Edwin]

No...wouldn't chance it.

[Mikeski]

It is roughly equivalent to putting an outboard motor on the back in terms of transom stress.

[FixerOstuff]

DO NOT DO IT!! The wedge was designed to be used on the malibu hull, and the hull is re-enforced to withstand the stress that a reverse hydrofoil will exert on your boat. The wedge will make your Nautique difficult to handle and could do some serious damage. If you want the bigger wake, use sacks or lead. The transom on a Ski Nautique is not capable of handling such stress.

[MarkP]

Guys check this out!!
http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/3183/85761.html?1067637421

[skinautique]

Nautique never did any of this because of the risks of someone hitting something with it and then trying to sue them. That would have added to another warning sticker on the boat!!!! I bet the hull on CC would suppport a similar design but I have never been a fan of that device personally. The pictures in Wakeworld are enough to make me avoid it!!

[882001]

the wedge is awful. i used to ride in a wedge equipped malibu. it makes the wake to steep and wash out . makes the boat handle like crap. the wake was way better just weighted down. stil not as good as a good old NAUTIQUE wake.

[skitime]

good post Mark..there is no way you could use the wedge on the Ohio river it would be suicide..I'm glad no one on the maliboo got hurt

[Hollywood]

The wedge trash. If it were so great, everyone else would be copying it.

[882001]

its definetly a "gimmic" to sell boats

[Edwin]

Ok - I'll take the bait. The Wedge is not a gimmic my friends. For me, it's an outstanding way to enhance the wake for recreational wakeboarding / kneeboarding. We ski 95% of the time and that LAST thing I'd ever do to my boat (regardless of manufacturer) is stick fat sacks all over the boat. There's nothing remotely appealing about a ballast system either.

I spend most of my skiing time on the course, then drop the Wedge for a bit of boarding before calling it a day. It takes 15 seconds to deploy, does a good job.

That said, Malibu would do itself a favor by designing a shear pin type system to prevent the transom from getting damaged. I never use my boat in questionable water...don't think I'd drop the Wedge is I had my boat in such a place.

[awake4air]

I wouldn't say it is a gimick. It does work. I have a friend who has a Malibu VLX with the wedge and he no longer uses the wedge. He finds that it forces the boat to work harder and sucks up a lot more gas. It probably goes through gas twice as fast with the wedge down. After riding behind my Super Air he has decided to use sacs instead. And to be truthfull, his boat wake is very close to the Super Air with the right amount of weight.

[882001]

sorry, i just didnt know what word to use for a 1500.00 option
1. makes the wake suck
2.makes it guzzle gas
3. makes your high performance330+hp boat handle like a turd and porpoise over 25mph
4. oh yeah, then after all that it tears the transom off and you sink. sweet ,where do i sign up.

[Edwin]

882001 - you've been looking at the CC price list for options lately haven't you? Just talked to the dealer last week, price is $565 from him.

BTW - looked at an 03 SAN over the weekend. Where's the storage space? Doesn't even come CLOSE to the stoage on a VLX.

[882001]

dont change the subject were not talking about storage. i dont hate or even dislike malibu. i just dont prefer the wedge. we experimented around with for quite a while. w/ all kind of weight in different places. it didnt work out. my buddy had a sportster lx w/ wedge it was not good. then he traded it in on a wakesetter. the sportster had the first gen. wedge. it was real bad. they changed it a little and made it a little better. but it still stays up all the time, now

na na, supra launches have way more storage than a vlx, maybe you should get one of those

[Edwin]

Glad your buddy doesn't use his Wedge...works for some, not for others.

[Wkerat]

The older wedge ued to reallysuck, but the new one really does what it is stated to do. I personally add soem weight on top of it to firm up the wake, but it si a great enhancement, especially on their direct drives. Also, i have heard a lot about the post on wakeworld (from my dealer and on other sites) and one thing i heard is that the owner didn't have insurance and also, as you can see by the prop, etc hit at an odd angle which was one reason. I know i have seen similar damage when people hit and they have torn off rudders and sent rock through the hull, I also have a friend who knocked his i/o off the back of the boat.

Anyway, back to the post, I would not add the wedge to your CC unless you plan on putting alot of reinforcement on the hull.

[skinautique]

Edwin,
I do have to agree with you that the 210 lacks in the way of storage. Not sure what CC could do with this but it would be nice to have more storage in there. I have to say (although I will always be a die hard CC fan) that I like the roominess of the 23 lsv from Malibu. The extra foot or whatever it is makes it nice.
As far as the wedge, I have never used it so I can't say anything good or bad about it.

[882001]

...works for some, not for others.
yeah i see what your talkin bout, if you only wakeboard 5% of the time. i wouldnt mess with sacs either. but we wakeboard [wakeboard, wakeskate, wakesurf] pretty much 100% of the time. :wink: