Stopping rollers - Wave Eater?

[bojans]

We have a couple areas of our site that need some help stopping rollers from bouncing off of solid objects back into the course. Wave eater offers 2 sizes of their system. The large ones are very expensive, $150 per foot but they make a smaller version that is $40 per foot. Does anyone have any experience with these? If so, how have they worked for you?

 

https://waveeater.com/

[Bdecker]

Very interested to hear how this works out, is there a minimum length? We have a few spots that might be worth trying it in. It would be amazing to line a course on a public site with these but you’d be at $100k quick...

[jjackkrash]

Lilly pads.

 

 

[loeweb]

Very interesting. Looks like the larger model is for heavy boat traffic and the smaller is for wind? If it's ski boat traffic, I bet the smaller model would limit the waves, especially on the bounce back.

[DaveD]

Watching the videos, it looks like they cut down chop but not rollers.

[escmanaze]

@DaveD I think a more accurate way of saying it is that they attenuate but they do not eliminate. Really though, that's all you could possibly expect of such an item.

[buoyboy1]

@bojans Some images would help to see what your exact situation/condition is and what the "solid" objects are.

[bojans]

@buoyboy1 the solid objects are floating docks.

[MichaelWiebe]

I've seen old tires chained together doing something similar in Bavaria, Germany, near Ingolstadt, a few years back. The multi-layer tire chain was between a slalom course and a cable park. The objective was to keep the ski boat wakes out of the cable park. I believe the slalom course is now no longer in operation.

www.wakeandgroove.de

[mbabiash]

There was a thread on a system using sealed 2 in pvc inside of open 4 inch pvc strung together. Curious if anyone ever tried this and how it worked. I want to say it was an Eric Lee creation.

[ironhorse]

Most marinas just chain or cable together a few logs or power poles and anchor them in place. This may be a much cheaper option if you're allowed this on your lake.

[Tom351]

Photos would really help- keep in mind that you can approach the problem with diffusion or absorption (or both). Diffusion might be easier and more effective depending on size/orientation of the floating docks- they must be pretty large if rollers are bouncing off of them instead of passing under.

[LeonL]

I have had some success with plastic snow fence, or construction barrier. You have use the kind with much greater percentage of plastic opposed to holes.