saanauk
Well-Known Member
I honestly don't know how those Zipwakes would have been on the Orca...this is literally the first Seasport I have ever set foot on so I don't have much to compare the ride to. On top of that the Orca had a big single and the Seasport has twins, so it could be that twins tend to balance the ride out more. All of this technology (ZipWake, Optimus360, Seastation) is completely new to me so I'm feeling my way around. I have throttled up on the twins and forgot to turn on the Zipwake power and the boat still seemed pretty stable. If I had tried that on the Orca it would have been get out the rosary beads because the boat wouldn't have let me get away with that.
On the first test drive I took on the Kodiak, the NMI guy was running the boat with Zipwakes in "auto" and I purposely got up and moved around the boat...there was almost zero effect on trim....the Zipwakes reacted automatically to adjust...there's a gyro in there that reacts to both pitch and roll
The helmsman did a hard' over panic mode turn to show the "recovery" ...there was a bit of lag (boat leaning hard to port) which he promptly adjusted in manual mode
If you do a search, people who have them installed say it's the best $$ they ever dropped into that hole in the water so there's that....it would be interesting to see how they perform on an Orca with a big single because that's the squirreliest boat i've ever run
Are you running twins on your 24?
I am running a single 250