We also took the eyelet up front lowered and moved it to the rear side of the board. Took the weight out, cut the plastic stop in front of the weight out (this takes some time with the dremel),moved the weight as far forward as it can go, redrill the hole for the retaining screw, and I was able to pull 40 true trips. The boards did run a little lower in the water, but had a nice run, not nose high, I do not run the tattles, but leave the flags up. I might try to run the tattles with that bigger band, just ran out of time last year to play with them