A wake boat and the sport of wake surfing make for the ideal family hack—that of earning loads of quality time with your teenage kids in the summer months. This is how you do it. As parents, we’re led ...

More than two decades later it seems a new version of wakeboarding, minus the tow-rope and foot-straps, called “wakesurfing” is beginning to take over. At the forefront of this emerging sport stands ...

One summer morning in northern Michigan, I sat on the back deck of a lakeside cottage, watching the sun rise over the glassy water. Suddenly, the ground began to vibrate, and my coffee cup on top of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — For some Minnesotans, it’s the ideal way to spend a summer day on the lake: wakesurfing a perfectly curled wave behind a powerboat with no worries of getting tangled in a tow rope or ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Wakesurfing, once the fringe little brother to ...

Wakesurfing boats are causing controversy on Lake Minnetonka, and some residents are pressing for new restrictions for the specialized watercraft. As the sport has grown in popularity, so have ...

The events leading up to a day of memorable and somewhat risky wakesurfing in Australia’s Sydney Harbour on January 13th, 2026—which happens to be my birthday—started a month earlier in Dubai. Cut to ...

The environmental group Willamette Riverkeeper has petitioned the state of Oregon to restrict the use of large wakesurfing boats because of the risks they pose to people, property, wildlife and ...

LANSING, MI — Powerful wakes thrown by specialized boats which people surf behind is drawing scrutiny from state officials, who are recommending restrictions on where and how the boats can operate on ...