Can you use a ski pylon for wakeboarding?

Can you use a ski pylon for wakeboarding?

A waterski pylon is an essential addition to your boat(as well as a Wakeboard tower). These pylons offer a high towing point not only for waterskiing but for towable tubes and wakeboarding, whatever takes your fancy.

Can you use a ski pylon for tubing?

For these reasons, tube manufacturers say their creations perform best when tethered from a lower point. That leaves a shorter transom ski pylon (no higher than 2 feet off the floor), a centered transom tow eye, or a harness tied between port and starboard transom rings as your best bets for tubing.

What is a extended pylon?

Extended Pylons. Extends the height of the towrope attachment point to improve pull angle, allowing huge air off the wake and easier deep water starts. A cost effective alternative to a tower. Fat Poles slip easily over factory installed, center-mount, tow pylons.

What is a wakeboard pylon?

The Insanity Wakeboard Pylon is a revolutionary way to simply add a tow rope attachment point to your boat. We get it, not all boats are perfectly set up with Wakeboard Towers, ballast tanks, and wedges. This shouldn’t stop you from getting all of the benefits of an elevated rope attachment point.

Can you wakeboard without a tower?

No, you don’t need a wakeboard tower to wakeboard—but it’s much more fun with one! It’s very simple. Towers allow you to achieve more hang time when you are doing tricks while you are wakeboarding. You can jump higher on your wakeboard and enjoy more time in the air for awesome tricks when you have a wakeboard tower.

Can you pull a tube with a wakeboard tower?

You should never tow a tube from a wakeboard tower. The amount of force could damage or break a wakeboard tower, lead to damage of your boat’s fiberglass hull and possibly injure someone.

How high should a ski pylon be?

The pylon bar needs to be at a proper height to run the tow rope for the water-skier from behind the boat, as well as certain distance behind the inboard or outboard motor. For example, if your motor is 24 inches from the boat deck, then your pylon must be at least 32 inches long.

Is it OK to pull a tube from a wakeboard tower?

Can you put a wakeboard tower on any boat?

Depending on the beam width, you will be able to fit one or even several wakeboard tower models. All our universal wakeboard towers are designed to be adjustable and can fit just about any inboard boat made in the last 50 years.

Can you pull a tube with a ski tow bar?

Safely Pull Tubes with TurboSwing® Tube-rated™ is an important classification to look for if you are interested in pulling tubes. Wakeboard towers and ski pylons are not able to pull tubes without harming riders or damaging boats.

Can you pull a tube from a wakeboard tower?

Absolutely not! You should never tow a tube from a wakeboard tower. The amount of force could damage or break a wakeboard tower, lead to damage of your boat’s fiberglass hull and possibly injure someone.