As time goes on technology is finding its way in to wakeboarding and wakesurfing to further enhance an already great hobby.

Wakeboard boat engines. The boat was a feather in the cap for Centurion especially given that it was used for the 2017 World Wake Surfing Championships presented by GM Marine. Higher quality professional wakeboard boats will have a v-drive or direct drive engine. In addition a boat must also have the acceleration to be able to pull wakeboarders out of the water quickly.

Choose your boat. The engine is located in the back of the boat inboard while the propulsion system is an outboard drive unit. Almost every IO manufacturer has some type of wakeboard edition model in their line that includes a tower and a low price tag.

With an outboard boat this could put. However skiwakeboard specific inboard-engine boats are more ideal than outboards of any kind. Malibu Boats is the worlds largest manufacturer of watersports towboats owning over one-third of the worldwide market share.

Its exciting to look to the future of our sport. A wakeboard boat runs a V-drive with the engine all the way aft. Centurion Ri257 Introduced in 2017 the Centurion Ri257 relies on the new Opti-V hull design to create waves and wakes for wakeboarding and wakesurfing.

Today we look to the future of wake surfing with a boat concept that sounds like a dream. Boarding behind this type of artificially made wave is also known as wakeboarding or wake surfing. On a pontoon boat with a larger engine it may be possible to get up on a wakeboard however a lot of pontoon boats have smaller engines and would struggle to have enough power to pull up a wakeboarder.

Let me present to you the Gigawave 350 GW-X. Due to risk of injury you should never wakeboard behind a boat that has an outboard motor or an inboardoutboard motor. Award recipients achieved an independently-measured standard of excellence of 90 percent or higher in customer satisfaction over the past program year based on.