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Radar Arch strength
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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.
Chris Burkard
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Radar Arch strength - by finalee - 07-17-2015, 08:21 PM
RE: Radar Arch strength - by ReelNauti - 07-20-2015, 10:15 AM
RE: Radar Arch strength - by NYMarine1 - 07-20-2015, 10:16 AM
RE: Radar Arch strength - by finalee - 07-20-2015, 04:25 PM
RE: Radar Arch strength - by Chris Burkard - 10-23-2015, 11:57 AM

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