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Wakeboard Tower on aluminum jet boat?

Posted: July 8th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Wakeboard Tower | 1 Comment »

I’m curious if it is at all possible to install a Wakeboard Tower on an aluminum jet boat? It’s probably uncommon for anyone to want this on this type of boat, but I have found it to work quite well for wakeboarding. And I think it would really be better with a tower.

Here is the boat I have (Almost).
http://thunderjet.com/boat-inboard_alexis_classic_21.html#
This is the boat I have, minus the nice tower that goes around the cockpit. I have the boat a few generations before when they didn’t include that tower.

If anyone knows a solution to this, Please let me know!

I find it hard to believe that you’ve had good luck wake boarding behind this jet boat. It doesn’t make any wake. The great part about wake boarding is riding the wake, and your jet boat is so light it just planes on the surface. I also think you’d have problems with a tower because it will make you too top heavy. The boat doesn’t have that much beam, and if you move the center of gravity that much higher with a tower it will only become more unstable. It would pull just fine going straight ahead, but when you turned you’d come close to capsizing the boat if you had a big rider behind it. I don’t think what your calling a tower in the picture is designed for pulling skiers or wake boarders. The shape of the tower is wrong. They’d using different bracing in the stern if it was designed for pulling. I think what your calling a tower is only there as a grab rail to help people keep their balance and not fall out of the boat.


One Comment on “Wakeboard Tower on aluminum jet boat?”

  1. 1 CB said at 6:49 pm on July 8th, 2010:

    I find it hard to believe that you’ve had good luck wake boarding behind this jet boat. It doesn’t make any wake. The great part about wake boarding is riding the wake, and your jet boat is so light it just planes on the surface. I also think you’d have problems with a tower because it will make you too top heavy. The boat doesn’t have that much beam, and if you move the center of gravity that much higher with a tower it will only become more unstable. It would pull just fine going straight ahead, but when you turned you’d come close to capsizing the boat if you had a big rider behind it. I don’t think what your calling a tower in the picture is designed for pulling skiers or wake boarders. The shape of the tower is wrong. They’d using different bracing in the stern if it was designed for pulling. I think what your calling a tower is only there as a grab rail to help people keep their balance and not fall out of the boat.
    References :
    http://thunderjet.com/boat-inboard_alexis_classic_21.html#


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