Tower for my Gayliner.

wakeboardkruk · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 15 City: Holland

Here are some pictures of the tower I built in winter 2005. Although its no wakeboardboat the family and I like it a lot. The tower is also a good help for beginners who like the extra pull upwards.
This spring I hope to make (or buy) some racks one for my wakeboards and one for my kneeboard. Because I'm from Holland buying on ebay is not much of an option.

gmarkham1 · Addict Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 505 City: janesville

That tower looks great! You did good work!

rowlex · Outlaw Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 207 City: seattle

sweet! i need one of those....

can you give us some details on cost and what you used?

jjaszkow · Posted: Mar 18, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject:

Nice looking tower. Do you have a parts list of what you used, and how long did it take you?

HHI Dave · Posted: Mar 18, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject:

That's impressive as hell. I wish I had some skillz like that. Cool

wakeboardkruk · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 15 City: Holland

thanks for the positive reactions.

Here is a report of what it took to make it.
Please ignore my bad-english. It is probably better than your Dutch.

Making the plans convincing my wife that the tower would look great on the bayliner and drawing in autocad took about 1 year!

Aligning of the first bar took one Saturday and half of the next Saturday. The second bar was done the rest off the second Saturday.
It took one evening to TIG-weld the side bars.
It took one evening to design and fabricate the mounting plates.
It took one evening to weld the plates to the side bars.
The upper hoop took one evening.
The forks took one evening.
Lower hoop took one evening. Measuring and welding.
Welding and aligning the forks and welding the support pipe took one evening.
Since I made the tower one year ago these are all estimates, in reality it took a bit longer probably.

This is what I used.
Gaspipe 2” (60.3x3.6mm)ca. 12meters
Welding elbows (or how are these called) n=8 (I screwed up 2).
Ball joints diameter 20 n=4 pieces.
Some plate 5mm.
SS plate 1mm. (inside boat reinforcement).
About 10 6-packs Heineken. (in Holland we actually buy them in small crates with 24 bottles).
About half a Gallon Bacardi. (the Heineken was for the help) and some Coke. (as in cola not the white powder).

wakeboardkruk · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 15 City: Holland

the pictures

wakeboardkruk · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 15 City: Holland

more pics

wakeboardkruk · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 15 City: Holland

more more pics

kdip · Posted: Mar 28, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

good work, looks great Very Happy

wakeboardkruk · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 15 City: Holland

What I forgot to mention is. The material I used is just ordinairy steel gaspipe. Before I took it to the powder coater I had it Galvanized (electrolite) so that the inside would be protected against corosion. Also I prefabed some holes for light-bar wiring. As an extra I also sprayed some rust protector (tectyl) with a small tube in the pipes. The kind you can spray on the inside of your car-door. If you drive realy old cars like me. Wink

devon · Posted: Mar 30, 2007 7:02 am Post subject:

looks like alot of work

im not interested in that kind stuff

but it looks sweet
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HHI Dave · Posted: Apr 06, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject:

Vloer zijruit. Cool

wakeboardkruk · Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 15 City: Holland

I have met my master. I humbly bow my head to HHI-Dave. Wink

Your Dutch is indeed better than my English! Surprised