Patent ID: 6941884

Claim:
A wake control mechanism for a watercraft, the wake control mechanism comprising: one or more length adjustable rods and one or more connections with fixed lengths attached to a stern of the watercraft; and one or more wake control plates that are adapted to couple with the watercraft via the one or more connections with fixed lengths; can be positioned in a body of water by the one or more length adjustable rods; can be submersed under the stern of the watercraft and can be controlled independently to produce a negative lift to force the stern of the watercraft into the body of the water to increase a size of a wake created by the watercraft; wherein the one or more connections with fixed lengths attach to non-rigid joints on the one or more wake control plates and rotating joints on the stern of the watercraft, where the non-rigid joints are connections that allow the one or more connections with fixed lengths a first angular displacement in one plane and a second angular displacement in the direction perpendicular to the one plane and the rotating joints are connections which let the one or more connections with fixed lengths rotate a third angular displacement about the rotating joints.