How tall is an average wakeboard boat on trailer?

Wakeboarder3780

I will be building a garage to store my current (and future) boats. I currently own an 89 Malibu Sunsetter, but plan on getting something with perfect pass / auto ballasts in the future. Do we have any idea how tall a boat will be when it's on a trailer (measured from ground to top of tower)?

There is a restriction that I can't have higher than 10 feet walls on the garage, which would mean about a 9' door at max. I don't have my boat by me or I would measure, but I'm assuming it would be all of 10 ft high including tower. Does anyone have their boat on their trailer nearby that they wouldn't mind giving me an accurate reading of height?

sandm · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 141

my garage has 10ft ceiling height, and so does my cousins, that's wall height, not including foundation. my supra 20ssv is 6" from the ceiling and his tige 22v hits. I have 9ft doors and my boat won't clear with the tower up.
hope this helps...

Wakeboarder3780 · Posted: Jan 20, 2009 5:38 am Post subject:

So from my understanding, your boat would clear if you had a 10' door, but your cousins boat wouldn't clear with a 10' door, correct?

Another way put:

Supra 20ssv needs 9.5 foot door to clear (10 foot door)
Tige 22v needs 10+? to clear where '?' is an unknown value.

Is this correct?

Calexan · Newbie Joined: 13 Aug 2008 Posts: 22 City: Little Rock

My 09' Bu 23 LSV wont clear a 10ft door without putting the tower down. I think the size of the trailer rims will make alot of difference. I have rims on mine...

Commodore · Ladies Man Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11636

12ft door will be what you want. You don't want to be squeezing in with one boat, only to find out another won't fit. Most big doors are in a 10 or 12ft layout. Get the extra 2ft and breath easy. You'll be happy you did.

pet575 · Posted: Jan 20, 2009 11:39 am Post subject:

+1. I got a 12 foot door just to be safe. Though my boat is not wake-specific, it is right at 11' on the trailer with the tower figured in.

Bambamski · Posted: Jan 20, 2009 1:10 pm Post subject:

I have a nine foot door on my garage and have to put the tower down for sure!! My garage has 10 foot walls plus the height of the foundation which adds another 1 foot or so. Lets call it 11 feet I can't put the tower all the way up. 12 feet would be pushing it but probably would be doable I'm thinking. I have a hook in my garage when I get my boat in that i just attach to the tower so it stands up so we can move around in the boat when it's in the garage.

Wakeboarder3780 · Posted: Jan 20, 2009 2:15 pm Post subject:

Wakeboarder3780 · Posted: Jan 20, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject:

So how about this. I know some people mentioned on one piece towers, sometimes you can take them clean off the boat. Are they all built this way? Is it a pain to remove them? Are they usually engineered pretty nice? I'll be honest, I plan on keeping the boat in the water 24/7 until it becomes winter time (Assuming you can get one of those little boat lifts that raise the boat out of the water). After it gets cold, then it goes in the shed.

Any info?

sandm · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 141

try appealing before you give up. look at what the association wants and maybe you can come up with some kind of compromise? ask your neighbors if they would mind and maybe go above and beyond in the overall design of the boathouse in the elevations of the front. make it more than just a shop and maybe you would have some leverage? dormers, or some kind of staggered peak roof, or altering the look of the front of the house to remove a sightline to the shop? or maybe a more expensive overhead door with handles?

never know until you ask..

NKCrider · Posted: Jan 21, 2009 11:30 am Post subject:

Commodore · Ladies Man Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11636

Wakeboarder3780, I've seen notched roofs before. I wonder if you could do something like that? Contractors help me out here:

Basically you have a 10ft wall, but at the point where the door is, the roof is notched and sits two feet higher, allowing a door there, but that's it. Therefore your walls are 10ft high, but at that one entry point you have a 12ft door. The rules don't say anything about the door height?

See the horrible paint drawing idea to get an idea of what I mean. Laughing

BrentC5Z · Posted: Jan 21, 2009 12:53 pm Post subject:

Commodore · Ladies Man Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11636

Brent87LT1, friggin dying over here Laugh

Wakeboarder3780 · Posted: Jan 22, 2009 10:23 am Post subject:

lol, you guys are hilarious. That's another decent idea. Unfortunately since I'm planning so far in advance I can't appeal to the board for another 2 years or so when we are closer to building. I guess I'm just trying to explore all my options prior to appealing (which i will definitely do first). But in the even they all stand up and say "no way, jose I wan't a backup plan.

Which is why I was inquiring if solid towers (meaning non collapsable) can be removed prior to being stored. As far as the person who was confused about me having the boat on a lift in the lake during the summer, perhaps this image will make clear what i mean:
http://www.themastersco.com/images/lifts/BoatLiftUS_2b.jpg

I don't think it matters but also, this wont be a boat house. It won't be anywhere near the lake. It's actually a garage behind the house. Not sure if the distinction means anything to anyone, but hey there it is.

WillSurf · Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 34

If the walls can go higher than 10' then do what the guy did in the pic above where you have storage or office or a 8' door on the sides of the boat door.

And / or mix and match.. why not raise the ground level where the garage will be and lower the drive way or keep the drive way at current elevation.

Willsurf