Photographs
A day, in order.
Photographs, arranged the way the day goes - the boat before you get on it, through to the run back. All of them this boat, on this lake. None of them bought. Whatever pictures or videos I take on your trip, I'd be glad to share with you upon request.
01 Before you get on it
It lives on a trailer.
A 2024 Supreme ZS232 - twenty-three feet two, and 4,900 pounds of ballast in six pumped zones. That ballast is the whole reason there's a wave behind it.
02 Aboard
Upholstered front to back.
Bow seating, a rear bench across the transom, and a walk-through windshield - so getting up front doesn't involve climbing over the dash.
03 The lake
The water really is that color.
Rock bottom, almost no weed, and the Corps owns the strip of land all the way round - which is why the shoreline is trees instead of houses, and why you can see what's under you.
There are 745 miles of it.
04 The wave
No rope in your hands.
Once you're up you let go of it, and the boat pulls a wave you stay on. Plates on the transom flip that wave from one side to the other in under two seconds, so a regular and a goofy rider don't have to argue about it.
05 The rest of it
Not everybody surfs.
Wakeboard, kneeboard, skis, slalom, the foil, the Zup, and the tube that nobody has ever needed teaching on. Some days we never get the surfboard wet.
06 The part nobody photographs
Most of a day is watching.
One person is up. Everyone else is on the back of the boat shouting at them. That's the bit people describe afterwards, and it's the reason four hours goes the way it does.
Table Rock Lake · 745 miles of shoreline · one boat
Tell me a date.
I'll tell you if it's open, and what it'd cost for the day you're thinking of.