How many guesses it will take to ....

[Ronnie]

Correctly state what happened where the attached pictures are concerned?

 

[Sean R]

Pulling a tube from the tower

 

[HangOutdoors]

Going through a Drive thru..

 

[octavio3311]

Looks like you ripped your tower tow point off.

 

[drewkaree]

Pulling a tube from the tower

Even if it's not this, it should be posted in every tube towing thread as if this will happen ?

 

[Yambers]

Backing into storage area with tower up. Only guessing this because I did it, but thankfully only hit a ceiling fan and it moved..

 

[WREKS]

Low bridge clearance.

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

Corrosion at the weld and it fell off or hit a tree branch and was knocked off but the weld area looks extremely corroded.

 

[drewkaree]

Some local yoots playing mailbox baseball with your light as the target

 

[ChrisM]

Beside ripping your tow tower ball off, what the heck is all over the seadek matting? Mold?

 

[Sean R]

Looks like pot ?

 

[ripler]

Global warming?

 

[Yambers]

Tried mounting a sex swing and cheap welding broke while trying it out?

C'mon. No disrespect, but others had to be thinking it . Hahahababa

 

[Sean R]

Well what happened?

 

[HangOutdoors]

@Ronnie Are you going to let us know what happened?

 

[ross l]

C'mon man! What was it??

 

[DRock3d]

yeah @Ronnie wtf

 

[Ronnie]

Lol i forgot all about this post. Actually @WREKS guesses correctly on day one.

Long story short, last run of the season was with some friends, my friend was at the wheel as we approached a low bridge at speed. I told him to slow down several times but he couldn’t hear me over the engines or music. The tower tow point made contact with the bottom of the bridge and got ripped off.

We stopped and drifted just outside the bridge for a few minutes and the bridge manager sounded the collision alarm once. After we determined that no one was hurt we returned to the dock. The only reason I still have the tow point is because earlier that season my Bimini top shredded and I had to tape parts of the top to the tow point and other parts of the tower to keep it in place while deployed.

my friend who is a self taught welder took a look at it and said he couldn’t weld it back on but felt that it could be done cheap, fast and easily by a shop he referred me to. I just have had or made the time to take the boat there.

currently the hole at the top of the tower is covered by flex tape and the last two times I’ve used the tower I just secured the line to the rear center support of the tower.

honestly, I miss the nav light and satellite radio antennae I lost during that incident more than the tow point. Although i used the nav light less than tower tow point.

 

[ross l]

What was that collision like? Big smash and jolting or something less?

I wonder how much force it took to rip it off and how many towables it would take to equal that force? ???

Besides the tow point, no other damage to the tower or the fiberglass?

 

[Ronnie]

It felt like hitting a low speed bump at high speed in a car or more similarly to hitting a freeway dot (bot’s dot) when changing lanes on the freeway. Not much sound either. Thankfully the only the top and side of the actual tow ball hit the bridge. No other damage to the tower or the fiberglass / gel coat at the tower’s mounting points. Got really lucky that day, I went to church the following day.