So we very quickly found we liked surfing with a tab fully deployed with our initial weight setup and wishing for more tab length or deployment angle. All the pics are tab fully deployed. We typically back off the gate deployment until we just get scaring on the lead edge lip.
The first pic is early in the season can't remember much of the set but can see mild foam on the lead edge lip.
2nd pic is really just for a pic not really a fun wave to surf. We were going slower like 10.5 or a bit less, gate is backed off more than normal with how steep it is and the dirty lip.
Last 2 pics are from the same ride with slightly less gate deployment in the pic with dirtier lip. Add more gate deployment it cleans up and rolls over the lead edge lip but sacrifices some push.
The last few weekends we have been running alot more bow weight and really has changed things. I will try and run thru tab only and gate only tests this weekend and take pics.
Surf Tabs AND Gates
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Looking forward to updates on this one.
Awesome build!