Wakeboard Pylon in Outboard Boat

[Trader137W]

Hey all,

Well I was sitting around thinking yesterday about how I can get a Wakeboard/Ski Pylon on my boat as it is an Outboard and has low connections for ski rope. I have looked into the flush mount tri-pod things but the way my boat is setup there is a pretty good chance that wasn't going to work and I don't want to spend money on something that isn't going to work.

Recently I saw this thing that is completely removable and is held in place by ratchet straps, looked pretty cool but cost was up in the $300 range and I wasn't sure that was what I would want to go with.

So I started looking around the house seeing what I could find. In the backyard was the remains of my kids trampoline that was destroyed by a recent storm.

I took a coulpe of the legs and one of the cross bars to create a base and put the foam padding from the trampoline enclosure around it, grabbed a couple of ratchet straps(3) and started going to work, I used other foam pads to cover up the ugly looking ratchets on the straps and with an hours worth of work and crap that was laying around the house I have a pretty darn sturdy pole that stands about 6 feet high from the floor of the boat, I took and hooked up my Y rope to the rear two ratchet strap hooks and that seems to be working nicely.

I am going to try it out this weekend and I will hopefully have some pics and video next week.

Has anyone else tried this kind of setup? I assume it is safe as it is the same basic premise as the $300 removable units online and once I had it install I tried very hard to move it and wouldn't budge at all, it was rocking the boat like crazy though.

With that being said I will take it extremely easy the first few times and see if it moves around at all.

Now I just need to add some weight and we might be looking pretty.

[bass69]

i think what you were talking about was an insanity pylon
best invention ever
you can get them for $300 shipped, if you do thier survey they give you $10 off so $290 shipped
try and get some pics of this pylon you made

[Trader137W]

I just looked that up on-line and yeah it is very similar to what that looks like. I will post some pics either tonight or tomorrow, I never got a chance to go out this past weekend so no video but sounds like I am going up to the big lake this next weekend, I will get out if the weather permits but if anyone is familiar with Mille Lacs it has to be dead calm day or the chop is just stupid.

[Trader137W]

Alright, I must be dumb because I can not get pictures to load to this site. I tried for like an hour last night and again today. I will try again tonight. Any hint as to what I am doing wrong, I always get this fatal error message every time after I select the pictures I want to upload.

[bass69]

www.photobucket.com

[JeffreyCH]

go to the link bass suggested, upload there, then go back to your home page and copy and past the IMG link inot your post done and done, I'd really like to see this thing as I was thinking about fabbing a pylon myself for this season