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My Wake is crooked

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Its been a couple of months since my boat left the dock so I took her for a little spin yesterday and noticed that my wake is crooked. I doubled checked EarleyBirds wake and his is perfect.

So what would cause mine to not be symmetrical? BTW, I was just going about 18 kts and the load was pretty much centerline.

Since I still can't figure out how to get my photos to show up in the post here is the dropbox link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2lyh6g3liugmd ... e.jpg?dl=0

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Re: My Wake is crooked

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I would think that the rudder are not towed in the same distance on each side. You may need to adjust them.y
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After I made the above post, I went back and checked an older photo. That one looked symmetrical. I'll check the rudder alignment but I don't think anything has been done to effect that.

Here is the older wake photo.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uezv9kijy9xel ... o.jpg?dl=0
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Wind and wave activity can impact how it looks.
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Yep but I noticed the same breaking wake on the starboard side going both ways in the same conditions which I assume eliminates the natural conditions.
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In the Bahamas this is known as a 'Kalik' wake, only cured by more Kalik.
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Well, I'm headed to the Bahamas shortly and plan on loading up on Kaliks!
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