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[Hollywood]

Hollywood

Its sad to make the assumption that because something positive is said about a business we must have something to do with it.

I didn't say Pacific Nautiques. I only mentioned pacific after realizing you were on the west coast, coincidentally so is Pacific Nautiques, possibly where BOTH of you got your names from. Relax dude, stop trying to fight everybody on the internet.

[lcap]

Hollywood

Did not make the connection you made until now, you thought the L was an I.

[AbunDiga909]

Its an L? I thought it was an I too....

[BigBald]

This Saturday my family drug our "new" 1999 Sport Nautique to storage. Traded in our 1988 SN. Got a tower and perfect pass on order thru the dealer. Hopefully get that work done in another month or so.

Starting to get the itch folks....even though we froze our butts off when we had to wipe down the boat after towing it thru ice/snow/salt covered roads on Saturday. But it was worth it.

[tryan]

get that salt off the trailer.

if you have a 'boxed' trailer, they eat away from the inside. it looks real purdy and then it breaks. been there and drug that puppy to the house throwing sparks.

open c-channel is the way to go if you do the salt on the road or salt in the water thing. flush out the boxes if you can.

[surfsup]

'04 211 Team Air, Vapor Blue Hull w/ Thermal Stripe, Boat should be ready for p/u in mid March

[AbunDiga909]

surfsup, wow i cant wait to see that on the water! The only 211's i've seen either the web or at a boat show were either a oranish or yellowis combo color...it'll be reallly nice to have a blue one i bet! Where do you boat/ski/board?

[AbunDiga909]

Refer to http://www.planetnautique.com/index....iewtopic&t=674 :!:

[ag4ever]

On the air chair (sky ski) mount, I made a custom mount for mine. It looks like a flight clip except it stick out at approximatly 90 degrees instead of angling up at like 30 degrees. I guess the best way to describe it is it looks like an L. There is a little spring in it, so the chair does bounce a little, but I think that will reduce the actual stress applied to the tower. Right now it is not painted, and I plan to have it powder coated. To secure the chair, I slide the sky into it like I would a wake board, and secure it with the bungee that was canabolized from the original flight clips.

I will try to take a pic so you can see what I am talking about. I think it is the best sollution for a chair on a Nauty.

[AbunDiga909]

ag4ever, I agree, your system sounds perfect. However, the board racks I see on the market don't look strong enough to carry a skyski in harsh water. Did you do any modifications to yous to make them stronger?

[ag4ever]

I made it out of 1/4" steel flat bar, and some 1/4" thick walled 2" diameter steel pipe. The entier thing was custom fabricated to look like a flight clip, just with different bends.

Right now it is sitting on my work bench waiting on a type of finish. I think I will just paint them to test them a couple of time on the water.

I have had the ski in it while in the driveway, and shook the crud out of it using ALOT of force, and it looked like the clip took all of the force, and not much of it was transfered to the tower. I don't even have a second attachment point at the ski strut like the typical mount. I am 100% sure that this is the best way to mountthe ski to the tower.

I guess I will just have to get it powdercoated before the owner's reunion in San Antonio, so I can show it off there.

I will try to get it painted and installed before the weekend so i can take some shots of it in the water on sat.

[ag4ever]

These are the mounts I made. Right now they are primed. I plan to finish painting them, then testing them on the water before having them sand blasted and epoxy coated then powder coated. When I send them out I will also send a set of the original flight clips out too so they can be powder coated red to match part of my tower.





You can see in this lats photo that I don't hve the flight clips on the port side, as that is where I plan to hang the chair.

[Onthewater]

Kudos on the mounts and boat, what is with the two different trailers?

[ag4ever]

I wanted a galvinized trailer, and don't care for the shorlander, so when i bought the boat I also had a custom trailer made. The Magnum trailer (made in Austin) holds the boat about 2" lower, and just fits better. While the trailer was being made the dealer loadned me the shorelander. It was an ok trailer, but I do a lot of towing and the magnum just holds the boat better plus I have two spares sitting under the bow of the boat, which I would not be able to do with the shorelander.

I really needed the lower trailer too, so I could get the boat in the gargae without defalting the tires every time. It really got old deflating the tires backing up 2' and reinflating the tires then doing it again to get out. Now I just fold the tower and just put it in the garage, although it does spend most of it's life in storage.

The first picture was one week after we got the boat, and is the "insurance" picture.

The second picture was after about 4 months of ownership, and was taken in austin where we prefer to boat.

[ag4ever]

Here is the painted/mounted clip.



Here it is with the ski in it.



I tested it in some chop today (nothing wild like lake travis) and the only time I wished it was sturdier was at over 35 mph in choppy water. At slower speeds going over double ups it was fine. It shook a little, but was not bad.