phat budde towers

refuse to conform · Guest

does anyone know if the towers made by phat budde are any good? does anyone have one or any info about their quality? I'm thinking about getting one but i'm not sure which one. i like the built in board racks on this though.

Dees · Posted: Jan 21, 2003 2:26 pm Post subject:

My friend had one on his 00 tige and i liked it alot. the new one's for the tige are sweet.

MackDaddyWake1 · Posted: Jan 21, 2003 2:33 pm Post subject:

Go with Boss.
Thicker pipe, cleaner welds, better mounts.
What kind of boat are you putting it on?

refuse to conform · Guest

right now we're doing all we can to make our '98 bayliner capri 2050 into the best wakeboarding boat it can be

B-rad · Posted: Jan 21, 2003 4:01 pm Post subject:

my roomate has an extreme phat tower on his tige. It holds up well and he has not had any issues with it. It aslo is easily broken down. He likes it a lot!

Romi · Posted: Jan 22, 2003 7:57 am Post subject:

I bought the phat tower just before the extreme phat tower came out. I like it a lot. Easy to fold. Not the cleanest welds although, but that does not bother me. Here are couple of pics.

dburke · Criminal Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 54 City: Reston

Do you think if phat bud made the single board racks available as a clamp on style rack that they would be very popular?

j-mo-pel is key · Outlaw Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 139 City: minnesota

yo g why you be trippin in my turf yo. i ought to bust yo face in! yeah thats right.

BillJ · Posted: Jan 22, 2003 2:55 pm Post subject:

My boat (2002 Tige 20v) came with the Phat Budde Xtreme Phat Tower. The tower is solid and the integrated board racks are okay. I have problems putting some boards into the racks, and the top racks are a bit of a problem because the boards drip right on the driver and passenger, plus you have to put one boot between the mounts so it's not very stable.

Here's a pic of my boat with a couple of boards on the rack

Quality is good and the tower doesn't rattle at all. Welds are okay but definitely not the cleanest that I've seen.

refuse to conform · Guest

i think if we got one it would be the twister pictured in my original post, so the water dripping on the driver would not be a problem.

Geoff Standish · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 843 City: Calgary

Bill,

That is one sweet pic...where is that taken?

Romi · Posted: Jan 23, 2003 11:30 am Post subject:

Looks like Mead..but could be Powell

derrick · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 723 City: Orlando

I think the old phat budde' towers are cool. Nice looking design, nice concept with the built in boardracks (but from the sounds of it aren't the greatest racks). The new one looks retarded. I think the new Idea of the towers in the back needs to be taken back to the drawing board, cause it's absolutely ugly. The new phat budde' tower also looks like the boardracks have the boards accessable from the inside of the boat, sounds like a good concept, but just puts them in the way I think. Go back to the drawing board with your new "space age" or whatever you wanna call them towers.
peace
Derrick

BillJ · Posted: Jan 23, 2003 8:35 pm Post subject:

That pic was taken at Lake Powell in Cathedral Canyon. It got so narrow that the bindings were rubbing on the rocks but the boat still had clearance so we just pushed it along by hand until we came to the end, which is where the picture was taken. We had an awesome time there and exploring Cathedral Canyon was one of the highlights of the trip.

Oh, and the wakeboarding was bad either!