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[jon-x]

Hey all,

The season is almost there! On my Challenger 180 2005, I have two quick questions:

1. my original boat cover seems to be drying with the years of sun and it leaves a little powder on the boat every time I take it off. Does anyone know of a product to give it a second life, some kind of conditioner or treatment to give it back its original condition?

2. I just installed a wake tower on it which looks great! do you know of any universal cover for the tower and/or the wakeboartd racks to protect them when I'm on the road?

Tks in advance guys!

Jon

[Kevin Leclair]

1. I am not sure of any product that would help with this issue.

2. Which tower did you go with, can you post pics? I would check with Terry at Poppy Company to see if they have something suitable for you, http://poppycompany.com/.

[jon-x]

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I went with the Joystick tower. I think it looks great and it's a solid one. Here are some pics without the racks. The racks are not installed yet but they will be as soon as I find covers for them. They are standard racks, one for two wakeboards and one combo (wake/knee).

[ssmedt]

the tower looks great; did you do the install yourself? how hard was it? any pics during the install?

[jon-x]

Yes I did it myself. Not too bad if you want to take the time to do it. I've put maybe 20 hours in it. When you need to do holes in the boat, you want to make sure you don't screw it up...

Here a site that I used to do it. Not the same boat, but same tower. It was very helpful, lot a pictures. I followed this guys instructions from A to Z.

http://articles.rich...tower/tower.htm

[calamar]

Beautifully done, mate!!! Congrats!!! However, how on the world did you get access to get the front support plates placed?! I never got to figure that out when I did my tower. I had to design it in order to make the tower receive the most amount of stress possible. I anybody wants to see a pic of it I uploaded one in a thread called homemade wakeboard tower. Cheers to everyone!!

[Kevin Leclair]

I anybody wants to see a pic of it I uploaded one in a thread called homemade wakeboard tower. Cheers to everyone!!

I'd love to see the pics, please upload them!

[calamar]

I'd love to see the pics, please upload them!

I've only got one pic, since my boat is 2 hours away, at Lake Tequesquitengo, so here it goes...

[calamar]

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Damn, it wasn't attached... Here it goes, again

[Kevin Leclair]

That looks great, what did you use to make it?

[jon-x]

Beautifully done, mate!!! Congrats!!! However, how on the world did you get access to get the front support plates placed?! I never got to figure that out when I did my tower. I had to design it in order to make the tower receive the most amount of stress possible. I anybody wants to see a pic of it I uploaded one in a thread called homemade wakeboard tower. Cheers to everyone!!

It wasn't easy to figure out. The best way I found to do it was to remove the back of the bow seats and do one big round hole behind each with a Dremel and fiberglass bit. When I was done installing the tower, I've put some kind of a white rubber edge around the hole to give it a finish and keep a permanent access if need to tight the bolts in the future. Now all I have to do is remove the back of the seat If I need.