WakeBoard Tower ???

[GlastronGT205onGlass]

Can you still water ski and ride a tube from behind a tower
or does that want to give to much lift for tubbin and slalom ??

thx
dan h

 

[mikeneal]

Re: WakeBoard Tower ???

You can ski, but pulling a tube is never a good idea, the tube puts way more stress on a tower (and boat where tower attaches) due to the surface area with the water.

 

[Mattyork92]

Re: WakeBoard Tower ???

Can you still water ski and ride a tube from behind a tower
or does that want to give to much lift for tubbin and slalom ??

thx
dan h

You can hook a tube to a tower but you dont want to slalom with a tower. It give you too much lift.

 

[ryland43]

Re: WakeBoard Tower ???

you can ski from the tower but its better without. i wouldnt use it for tubing

 

[SeanT]

Re: WakeBoard Tower ???

We never tube from the tower. I see people doing it and it scares me a little.

I somtimes pull the smaller biscuits and single tubes from the ski bar, but the giant multi person tubes always from the transom point.

We usually kneeboard off the tower though.

 

[salty87]

Re: WakeBoard Tower ???

i've let women slalom from the tower. don't think i'd let a dude, esp if he was a really good skier. i don't like burning the gas to go that fast anyway though.

no way i'm pulling a tube from the tower.

 

[PitchFork]

Re: WakeBoard Tower ???

Wakeboard, Kneeboard, and small one person tube with a small child less than 100 pounds are the only things we pull from the tower. Ski and other tubes from the transom hook.

 

[kartman]

Re: WakeBoard Tower ???

this summer we had a guy with a small 17' boat with a tower pullin a tube. he flipped his boat over when he was turning. so i would say its a no go. not sure what kind of tube he had, or how many people he was pullin, but im not going to chance it.

 

[sebber83]

Re: WakeBoard Tower ???

I read the warning labels on a Monster Tower, a stock tower on a Mastercraft x-30 and a Centurion, they all say not to Tube behind a tower, I read about a girl dying a few years back when the tower ripped off and hit her, she was sitting in the rear of the boat while dad was towing her kid brother. It's called a wakeboard tower for a reason!

 

[fossill]

Re: WakeBoard Tower ???

Exactly!