Our latest CustomFit bag is a surf specific monster for use in the Centurion Avalanche. Since this bag fits on the port side of the boat it will work on both C4 and standard Avalanches (we have bags for the starboard side of both models, contact us for more info). With a rating of nearly 1400 pounds, this bag completely fills all of the available space in the rear locker and under the port seats for the best possible surf experience.

Once filled you have the ability to build a fantastic surf wake, regardless of how many people you have out on the boat with you, and the bag is completely hidden in use so it doesn’t take up any additional seating in the boat.

Can be combined with our Centurion TankBuster Factory Ballast Upgrade, filled and drained with a portable ballast pump, integrated into a fully automated ballast, or any combination of the three. This bag is also compatible with WakeMAKERS’s Exclusive X-Link system for the fastest filling and draining possible, contact us for more information.

Have more fun surfing behind your Centurion Avalanche this summer, we’ll make sure you have the perfect wake, so you can enjoy a hassle free surf experience. No one has more experience weighting Centurion boats for wakeboarding and wakesurfing.

Our CustomFit ballast bags for the Centurion Avalanche are $813.85, hold a maximum of 1,390 pounds of water, and come ready to install so you can spend more time on the water. If you would like to purchase this bag, please contact a ballast expert.

One of the great selling points of the Axis A-Series wakeboard boats is the factory Plug’n Play ballast upgrade option. We sell a lot of these kits to Axis customers (and even more rear bag upgrades for those customers that want to use their boats for surfing), so we regularly have questions about what is involved with the installation.

Below is a gallery of pictures we took the last time an Axis came through for an upgrade, so take a look through them and hopefully that will answer any questions you have.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the Axis Plug-n-Play upgrade, or optional bags that we offer that are compatible with the factory system.

Axis Wake has put a lot of energy into marketing their A22, and now the A22, wakeboard boats as affordable performance machines that generate great wakeboard wakes. What’s not as well known is how well these boats surf, once weighted properly. Fortunately Axis is committed to showcasing just how well the A-Series boats can perform for wake surfing, as evidenced by this video Matt and the team put together.

Take look, and if you want to maximize the surf performance of your Axis A20 or Axis A22 checkout our Axis Wakeboard Boat Brand Hub, or feel free to contact us for a custom recommendation.

We’ve added another bag to our CustomFit line of boat year/make/model specific solutions; this time for Tige’s 22i. This bag, which is rated at 530 pounds of capacity, is a perfect in the rear lockers of all 22i boats. Traditionally a difficult boat to add additional ballast to, these custom bags make it easy to add additional weight in the rear lockers for wakeboarding or wake surfing, and that weight is completely hidden.

Perfectly sized to fill all of the available space in the rear lockers, without doing any damage, these bags are the best way to get additional ballast in your Tige 22i wakeboard boat.

Combine with a portable ballast pump or add a fully automated ballast system for the ultimate setup.

Our CustomFit ballast bags for the Tige 22i are $289.95, and hold a maximum of 530 pounds of water. If you would like to purchase this bag, please contact a ballast expert.

A customer of ours sent in some pictures of the ballast system he installed in his Centurion Typhoon using our components and we wanted to share it with you. This customer wanted a fast, reliable and durable system to fill his oversize surf bags in the rear lockers. The resulting setup makes use of aerator pumps, which combine all of the previously mentioned requirements along with unmatched value.

Take a look at the pictures below, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the system installed, or would like assistance planning your own ballast upgrade.

NOTE: We now offer a hose of adapters for all of the component ballast pumps we sell, which makes the PVC fitting used unnecessary.

Most people are familiar with our ballast system upgrades for Malibu, Mastercraft and Nautique boats, but what a lot of our customers don’t realize is that we have a wealth of experience with all of the major manufacturers, including Tige boats.  Last summer we teamed up with Wake9.com to show just what’s possible when a no limits approach is taken to building the best possible surf wake.

Take a look at the video below to see the results, and when you’re ready to upgrade your Tige wakeboard boat, or any other brand, contact a ballast expert to start planning the perfect wake.

MasterCraft Introduces New X-30 (January 18, 2012):
The token badge of any crowded marketplace is the overwhelming sea of sameness – a lot of things are alike but very little is uniquely valuable. And while “alike” is not bad, being distinctly better is…well…best. With phones, Apple is the Kingpin. With liquid, it’s Red Bull. And with luxury performance towboats, it’s MasterCraft. And now with its recent introduction of the new 23-foot X-30, MasterCraft Boat Company has once again risen above the noisy fray to put its unrivaled stamp on the industry.

One of the first features to capture the eye is the innovative, sleek design. Modeled after the critically acclaimed 2013 X-Star, the new MasterCraft X-30 offers a progressive flare why staying in touch with its time-honored heritage. At 23″4′ in length and 102″ in width, the new X-30 boasts a traditional bow, which is a design departure for the King of the Twin Tip. Nonetheless, the large bow has plenty of room for you and a few of your closest confidants, even if they are 6′ 3″. And underneath this social gathering is once again industry-leading storage, with the deep passenger gullwing storage continuing back through the length of the boat. Not only does the X-30 bow have you aptly covered with seating and storage, there is also a clever flip down door in the front that when opened exposes a stow away area for your anchor and rope.

Moving to the back of the highly refined X-30, you are immediately greeted by luxurious yet functional wraparound seating. At the top of the list is the smartly designed convertible rear seat. In its normal position, it looks like any other wraparound seating configuration – however, with one simple move anyone can flip this rear perch to create a seat that can comfortably watch all the action at the end of the rope. There is also plenty of cargo space, with a massive coffin storage area on the port side and of course, the MasterCraft cooler and a trash receptacle intelligently hidden under the seat behind the driver.

In addition, there are other important creature comforts designed to bring a little bit of your land life to the water. The X-30 comes standard with an exclusive JL Audio sound system, with digital amp and four high-end speakers. Add the optional the sub and sub-amp to make any on-water get together into a spectacle. Whether you prefer satellite radio, CDs or an iPod, the X-30 has you and the taste of any guest covered. In addition, the X-30 offers popular and convenient options like a cockpit table, billet aluminum walk-thru door, heater system and heated seats. Add in the stellar touch screen display and the driver will have as much convenience and comfort as anyone else.

As you and your passengers head to the very rear of the X-30, you will not help but notice that MasterCraft has left no stone unturned and not underestimated the value of attention to detail. First we welcome anyone to the transom of the boat by placing a non-skid walk thru on the sunpad. Second, we placed a convenient and safety conscious step down to the platform which also serves as a perch while you put on any water sports gear. And finally, MasterCraft offers the “waterfall” like swim platform that allows any boarder to simply slide into the water.

But as with any MasterCraft, the X-30 is as much about what happens behind the boat as what happens in it. And the X-30 will not disappoint. Thanks to an all-new hull designed for premium performance and wake shape, the X-30 is not only one of the best performance boats on the water but it puts fantastic wakes for any watersport enthusiast. Engage the optional attitude adjustment plate, and the X-30 can be worthy ski partner. Load up the nearly 1000 pounds of standard ballast and this boat will change the way you wakeboard. And maybe the most impressive is the sheer ability of the X-30 to produce one of the industry’s best wakesurf wakes with very little effort. Load the boat up with even a minimal 400 lbs, deploy the optional surf tabs and behold a surf wake that can only be topped by something you would see at Bells Beach.

So with the introduction of the X-30, MasterCraft invites you to let the best begin with the X-30. Best action. Best relaxation. Best social time. Best boat. And of course, the best summer of your life.

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A Tige Boats Public Surfing Announcement. A Wakesurfing video with the details on the latest sport to take over your lake and how the Tige ballast system does it better than anyone, on both sides of the boat!
Tige Sufers: Dom Lagace, Chase Hazen, and Ashley Kidd

Over the past decade, Tige has secured a spot at the top of the wakeboard boat industry. Make the pilgrimage to your local boat show and check out the new Tige’s. The staff at WakeMakers considers the newest generation of Tige’ Boats, one of the best equipped in the market. Tige says that they have the best wakeboard boat in the world. You can’t doubt that, as they have the wakesurf wave to back that up.

What you get in quality and creature comforts inside the Tige is worth every penny you spend. New features like the three ballast package options are leading the industry. Some guys may have 3 or 4 LCD screens that move up and down but Tige asks the questions that matter. How does that new technology make you a better rider or create the best day on the water? The ability for the boat operator to control both under floor factory ballast and additional above floor factory ballast from the helm sets Tige apart. The simple yet functional design has the end consumer at the focal point. Just watch this video and you will get a taste of what Tige has been doing Abilene Texas.

WakeMakers is now offering Custom Tige Ballast Bags for the RZ4. Get the most out of your Tige RZ4, RZ2, RZR, Z3, Z1, R20, 24Vé, and 22Vé, Factory Tige Ballast System. Just take out the OEM bag and add our bag in it’s place. Instant wake enhancing greatness.

Custom Tige Port Ballast Bags
Custom Tige Starboard Ballast Bags

You know what kind of wakeboard boat you have, we don’t, but you might not know exactly what you need to create the ultimate wake for your boat. Which is where we come in, here at WAKEmakers we’ve got the knowledge and answers you need to help you build that perfect ballast system for your wakeboard boat. But we also realize that you might not always have the time to spend with us on the phone to figure out what you need. So we went ahead and created our brand hub pages where  all you need to do is know what kind of boat you have and we take care of the rest. Your boats brand hub page is packed with content and products specific to the make of your boat. News, recent blog posts, and products designed for the make of your boat and only your boat. So instead of worrying if the product or ballast system you’re looking at will be compatible with that Malibu wakeboard boat of yours, just make your starting point our Malibu Boats hub page and rest assured that every product you’re looking at will work with your boat.

The brand hub pages are designed to save you time and effort when looking for information or products for your wakeboard boat or ballast system. After years of servicing the wakeboarding and wakesurfing community, it’s become clear to us that when customers search for what they need they usually do so by searching for their boat’s make, model, and year of the boat. So in order for your searches to produce the most relevant information, our team came up with a solution the problem nobody even knew they had. We simply put all the information you need to make the correct decision right at your finger tips. Not sure of the recommended weight distribution in your Supra? Start here at our Supra hub page. Or maybe your looking for some additional ballast for that Malibu Wakesetter of yours, to give you the ultimate wakesurfing wake. You’ll find factory integrated ballast systems on our Malibu Boats hub page. It’s as simple as that, just start your search at the boat manufacturers hub of your choice and away you go!

So whether your searching for info or products for your Malibu, Supra, Nautique, Moomba or Mastercraft wakeboard boat, remember to start that search with one of our WAKEmakers hub pages. You’ll save yourself some time and effort and be sure that whatever you’re looking at is directly related to your wakeboarding or wakesurfing boat.Whatever your looking for, when it comes to building perfect wakeboarding or wakesurfing wakes, nobody else in the Industry can get it done like we can.

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What it is: Mastercraft Tankbuster Factory Rear Ballast Upgrade

The WakeMAKERS Mastercraft TankBuster Wakeboard Ballast System is designed to integrate with your factory ballast system easily, be controlled using the switches on your dash, and not require any additional effort to fill and drain. It’s a must have if your summer days on the lake are spent wakesurfing. Are you tired of throwing pumps over the side of your boat? Then the Mastercraft TankBuster factory ballast system upgrade is your solution. Replace the factory hard tanks with our Mastercraft wakeboard ballast system to create a massive wakesurfing or wakeboarding wake. Maximize the ballast capacity in each rear corner, while at the same time restoring full use of the lockers for storage when you don’t need the biggest wake possible.

For Use In:

This TankBuster system is designed to work with any Mastercraft v-drive wakeboard boat that has hard ballast tanks that installed above the floor in the rear lockers and uses reversible Jabsco Ballast Puppy Pumps. That includes, but is not limited to, the following models:

• ’02 Mastercraft X-Star
• ’03-’05 Mastercraft X2
• ’06-current Mastercraft X1
• ’03-’05 Mastercraft X15
• ’03-’05 Mastercraft X30

For specific questions on fitment, and for possible compatibility with other models, please contact us.

Bag Size and Dimensions:

• 400lbs – 42″ x 16″ x 16″
• 455lbs – 32″ x 18″ x 20″
• 565lbs – 42″ x 19″ x 19″
• 750lbs – 50″ x 20″ x 20″
• 1,100 – 50″ x 24″ x 24″

Where it goes:

The Mastercraft TankBuster Ballast System Upgrade takes the place of the existing factory hard tank installed in each rear locker of certain Mastercraft wakeboard boats. Once installed, the new ballast sac is controlled completely from the driver’s seat, and uses the factory pumps and plumbing. Everything functions exactly the same as it did from the factory, but you’ve added a significant amount of ballast capacity. Additionally, when the bags are empty, the entire rear locker is available, dramatically increasing the amount of storage space for gear and equipment. This kit includes everything needed for the installation, including a new ballast bag and the necessary Fly High quick connect fittings.

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