mounting a free to me ski pylon

[big boat little motor]

I tried posting this to the water ski forum with no luck so I thought that I would try here.

Hey y'all,
I was given a 38" ski pylon main post by a buddy of mine it is 1.25" stainless steel tube with 3/8" wall thickness on it (it seems as heavy as a lead pipe). It is plenty stout and I need to find a way to mount this to my boat. The outboard protrudes 15" above the deck and when you add an additional 6" for clearance that leaves an additional 17" than can go below the deck and be reinforced.

I would ideally like to find a way to mount this in the deck forward of the splash well with 2 or 3 connection points below the deck so that I would not need the additional 2 45 degree braces pointed back to the transom that the tripods have on them. FWIW my boat is an aluminum hull if that matters for the bracing.

Has anyone else ever redneck engineered something like this and if so how?

Thanks in advance

 

[And-Con]

Re: mounting a free to me ski pylon

Without seeing your set up its hard, but a few pointers,
1) You really do want it as high as possible, that's why more expensive ski boats have towers.
2)It will probably be a lot easier to install it as designed, but do as you see fit.
3)What type of aluminum boat, is there a separate deck , or is the deck just the other side of the bottom, depending on how your boat is made, the design can be adjusted to fit.
4) Backing plates are vital.

Good luck, sorry I don't have any more suggestions, and I'm curious as to why you don't want to use the supports-they get in the way, require that many more holes, or is there a specific reason?