Your Boat Club takes on minority partner, will expand to other parts of the U.S. - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal bizjournals.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizjournals.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Surf s up in Minnesota, wipeout ahead Wakesurf boats are disrupting shores, lake bottoms and other boaters.
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Another invasive species is showing up on recreational lakes, one that could become more insidious than zebra mussels or curly pondweed. They re brightly colored, ear-pounding loud and more powerful than most cars. Unlike pondweed, these things affect lake bottoms, lake surfaces and lakeshores.
They re wakesurf boats, the hottest-selling watercraft in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The pricey rigs are specially built to create 2-foot waves, cresting ever higher with newer versions.
Starting a few years back, boats were fitted with ballast tanks to push their sterns down and churn big waves for steeper launch for wakeboarders to fly and twist and flip.
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