I have a 1996 Marada 2100 Open bow 21' I/O with a 5.0 engine. I do not have a tower for wakeboarding and was thinking of making my own wakeboard rack that hangs off the side like I've seen some others. I have a leftover drum kit clamp that is pretty heavy duty that can connect one 1" bar to another 1" bar. I was thinking of making the rack out of 1" pvc and mounting one part to the drum clamp and the other to to a bar connected on the boat. My first thought was to install a handicap grab bar to the side of the boat and connect it to that. But was wondering, would it be strong enough if I got a piece of 1" steel tubing about a 10" long that is threaded on one end and screw it into a housing that I can bolt to the boat so that its basically a 10" rod sticking straight up and I hook the clamp to that. My only concern with this option is would it provide enough stability if it flexed to not crack the fiberglass on the boat? this option would allow me to only put screws in one location vs a grab bar that would have both ends needing to be drilled into the boat. Hope the description makes sense. I prefer idea 2 if possible, and this project will only cost me about $10 vs buying an actual rack which I'm sure someone will suggest. Don't really want to always spend a ton of money on every project.
I added a crude drawing example and a pic of the clamp.
I added a crude drawing example and a pic of the clamp.
