Jeff

PS Here's our website with some more wakesurfing pics behind our Sportster SCICs among other things

www.sunsetbay.com

Well, let it be known, wakesurfing not only can be done, but works great behind a Seadoo SCIC. We in fact have two Seadoo Sportster SCICs that we use almost exclusively for wakesurfing - reason being we want to have fun with the kids at our summer camp and not worry about propellers. Here's a couple pics, one of which we are surfing on a 3" thick plank we found floating around.

So here's the method we stumbled upon that makes this possible (inspite of everyone in the known world saying it can't be done don't bother to try):

1) several people in the boat
2) one guy hanging off the tower with a windsurfing harness to lean the boat over to the side being surfed.
3) One 150lb fat sac or similar sized person on the back corner of the ski platform.
4) Use 6'0 regular surfboard (with rubber nose protector) not a wakesurfboard
5) Start out at 15 mph and let the wake form and stabilize, have the guy on the tower then hike himself out with both feet against the the boat but his body suspended by the windsurfing harnass - the farther out he hikes the better, then slowly drop your speed down to about 11mph.
5) Pull up hand over hand on the town rope until you are close behind the boat and thow the rope into the boat once the line goes slack
6) Learn to pump the board or reach down and take a couple of paddles by hand if you start to fall out of the wake.
7) When someone falls, the hiking guy on the tower swings back along side the boat so it doesn't tip over far enough to take on water.
8) If it starts to cavitate or steam too much out the back, you are leaned over sideways or front to back too far so adjust your weight distibution in the boat.

You'll be able to surf for miles once you get this proceedure down, and will blow everyone's minds who thought it couldn't be done and/or spent $60k on a propeller wake boat thinking that's the only way they could wakesurf.

You can find more pics here in case the attachments don't come through.

***Now all I ask in return for this life changing advice for Seadoo owners is someone PLEASE help with question about out our alarm problem***