Lowering the Wakeboard tower during travel

jacknbella · #1 April 8th, 2009, 03:44 PM

Can someone help me figure-out how to lower my wakeboard tower without completely removing it from my boat? That freakin thing is 10' high on trailer and it's a pain in the rear to remove the lower legs everytime I need to put it in the garage. Is it possible to travel safely in the "down" position? The owners manual barely covers the tower assembly and disassembly. See pics.

hebby · #2 April 9th, 2009, 05:35 PM

do not tow it with the tower down. It will bounce and could damage your boat and tower. I the pics are taken too far away for me to see the design and how to take it down.

kyle f · #3 April 9th, 2009, 05:50 PM

Yup, need pictures of the frotn and rear attachemnts. Where the top rails meet the bottom hoop.

J. Mark · #4 April 9th, 2009, 06:20 PM

looks like you remove the black knob at the rear where it attaches to the hoop on each side and fold it forward from what little I can see.

kyle f · #5 April 11th, 2009, 12:47 PM

Though to address your question about travelign with it down. My owners manual says to never trailer the boat witht he towe down.

superpop · #6 April 12th, 2009, 04:18 PM

I think you would be fine if you just folded it forward and put a piece of foam or something soft in between the boat and tower were they touch and then just strap the tower down. I fold mine up this way all the time.

jacknbella · #7 April 13th, 2009, 03:26 PM

Thanks! I'll try to snap more pics this weekend and post them for further review. However, I tinkered with it over the weekend again and the dumb thing is not designed for travel in the down position. I may completely remove the darn thing altogether during travel because I'm afraid I might hit something with it in the "up" position. I'd like to have a few words with the engineer responsible for designing the tower though...

truckermatt · #8 April 14th, 2009, 08:01 AM

jacknbella.... good luck with the tower...... by the way, that is a very nice boat you have there

kyle f · #9 April 14th, 2009, 09:54 AM

I hate to restate this, but as I said above it is not suposed to be towed in the down position. I think that the tower joints will no distribute the loading of shock properly when layed down.

Also consider you have a Bow Rider with a Tower added. The boat was designed to accept a tower, not designed to have a tower. The tower you have was designed, then tweaked to fit your boat. So, you are not going to have as great of functionality out of yours as a boat that was originally designed to be a wakeboard boat that they knew they were going to have to put a tower on and had a company build a tower specifically for that modle boat.