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Radar Arch strength - finalee - 07-17-2015
On a 1988 31 open does anyone know if the arch can support the pull of a wakeboarder.
RE: Radar Arch strength - ReelNauti - 07-20-2015
No...it's not designed for that type of load.
RE: Radar Arch strength - NYMarine1 - 07-20-2015
(07-20-2015, 10:15 AM)ReelNauti Wrote: No...it's not designed for that type of load.
Sounds like a potentially expensive mistake.
RE: Radar Arch strength - finalee - 07-20-2015
Thanks, That was my thought too. Figured someone else may have tried it.
RE: Radar Arch strength - Chris Burkard - 10-23-2015
Nope, not designed for that type of load and especially not designed for horizontal load. That arch is thin fiberglass (to be light weight), I believe and I bet it is only thru-bolted with small 1/4" bolts. It is very likely the strain will rip the bolts through the fiberglass. That arch was only designed to take the load of a few antennas and possibly a radar array. A skier or a wake boarder can generate 500 - 1000lbs of force (especially a wake boarder). That would rip the arch off the boat.
An arch designed to handle that would have to be custom made and through bolted with very large backing plates.
Just my $.02.