On Mon, 14 May 2007 17:53:00 -0700, "Bryan"
wrote:

Well then, is a wakeboard tower on a ski boat worth the money?

All kidding aside, here is how I understand it.

In order to properly achieve the proper wake you have to have a boat
that will produce it. Which would mean in your case, if the boat isn't
set up to produce the proper wake for all the reasons one would wake
board in the first place, then adding a tower doesn't make sense from
that perspective.

However on the boats that I've seen with these towers, it would appear
that they add an element of performance to the skier's/boarders being
towed that you can't achieve with a standard pole arrangement. This
is from observation only - I ordinarily fish a big lake where there
are two ski clubs and they all have boats with towers - some for wake
boarding and some for skiing.

Both of these opinons are based on observation - I have no direct
knowledge of either type of boat - it just appears that boats that are
used for wake boarding produce an entirely different kind of wake than
a boat designed for water skiing. It also appears to me that those
who really want to turn a good performance in their chosen sport all
use towers.

As I said - this is my observation.