Wakeboard Towers
Getting Started: How to Buy a Wakeboard Tower
Wakeboarding, wake skating, and wake surfing are the fastest growing water sports today. Wakeboarders quickly learned that raising the rope’s attachment point resulted in additional hang time to execute tricks. Out of this was born the 7 foot tall extended ski pylon, first manufactured by Skylon. It didn’t take long for the extended ski pylon to morph into a wakeboard tower to get rid of the support cables and to add more rigidity. Riders could also hang their wakeboards up out of the way, along with all the accessories like speaker systems and tower lighting.
There are many boaters now looking into wakeboard towers. Almost all new wakeboard and water ski boats on the market today have an option to include a wakeboard tower. There are tens of thousands of professional waterski and wakeboard tow boats and hundreds of thousands of recreational run-about boats in the US today. Since wakeboarding is still a relatively new sport, many of these boats do not have wakeboard towers installed.
If you own a boat today without a wakeboard tower and want to add a tower to enhance your wakeboarding and boating experience, it can be quite confusing to navigate the maze of information and options. Wakeside.com has produced this guide to bring you the information and analysis that will help you select the right wakeboard tower for your boat.
