My Monster Tower Update

[gx205]

Thanks again to all of the responses I had to my Monster Tower questions, after I installed it.

I just got back from our week vacation at the lake and I must say that this Tower was awesome! All of my nieces and nephews and their friends absolutely loved this Tower. All of them liked the looks of it and they all commented how much easier it was to get up on ski's and wakeboards with it.

In fact a friend of one of my nieces had never skied before and wanted to try it. After we gave her a quick verbal lesson on how to get up out of the water, I attemped to pull her. Amazingly she popped up on her first try and skied liked she had done it before. She finally took a spill when she tried to go across the wake for the first time. I'm convinced that the Tower was a big reason she learned so fast.

We used it everyday last week, and I regularly checked all of the nuts/bolts to make sure everything stayed tight and it did. I re-torked them every morning, and only one time was any of them loose, and then it was only one, and it only took about an eighth of a turn to make it tight again.

The tower is completely silent, I've seen no trouble with any gelcoat cracking, so hopefully I'll get many years of usage out of this Tower.

I would highly reccomend a Monster Tower to anyone looking to buy a Tower.

On another note, I must also give props to my boat. Up until this spring I had always owned a jet boat. my first was a small Seadoo with a jetski engine. Then I bought a bigger seadoo with the 240hp mercury motor. I finally wanted to get away from 2 stroke engines and wanted a boat that had more room, so after a lot of looking at different boats I ended up buying a glastron gx205 w a 5.0 volvo/penta I/O drive.

I know that most of you guys really like the v-drive boats, and i have nothing against them, but I have to admit I'm really impressed with this Glastron. it's a 20 footer, and I carried 10 adults in it all day long.

Of course at different times we had 9 adults in the boat and one adult being pulled by the boat, so in a since it was still carrying 10 people. I pulled wakeboarders, and double skiers all day long, and then at the end of one day my nephew decided he wanted to slalom ski back to the cove. He said he hadn't slalom skied for a long time and just wanted to try it again. Now i thought to myself.....?..I'm I going to be able to get him up on one ski with 9 adults in the boat?? He's no small guy either, he goes about 190 pounds. He got ready, I got some tension on the rope, he yelled "ready", and I shoved the throttle forward...........and UP HE CAME!!

I don't know if this is normal for all bigger boats, but my last Seadoo would have never pulled up a slalom skier with that many people in the boat. maybe 2-3??, but not 9.

Have any of you ever had this many in your boat at atime and pulled a slalom skier?? Is this normal. or do I have a real workhorse?

[jacoviii]

your Seadoo would have never pulled up a slalom skier with that many people in the boat. maybe 2-3??, but not 9.

it was cause it was a seadoo
should of got a yamaha

i just put a monster on my exciter
i do like the glastron