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Been looking at adding a tower to my 232. Ran across Monster Tower on the ol interweb:
https://www.monstertower.com/mtk-wakeboard-tower.html

Looking at the MTK tower in polished or white with the Red Bimini. Looks like about $1700 shipped.
Any thoughts or experiences with adding a tower to a 10 year old boat?
Anyone have experience with Monster Tower or other brand-specific?

This is the closest thing I have found to a forward leaning, folding, factory style tower. We don't do a ton of skiing or wake boarding - looking more to upgrade the appearance of my boat and add some rear-facing speakers.
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Easy Peasy. Axe me how I know? I installed the arch on my boat by myself. But I think it will help if you have a contortionist in your family.
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Ytmsn wrote: Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:25 pm Easy Peasy. Axe me how I know? I installed the arch on my boat by myself. But I think it will help if you have a contortionist in your family.
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Have you see the ones from Samson? Spendy but the have Bimini options . Cobalt used the Razor for a minute but you may like the Blade version

https://samsonsports.com/portfolio-post ... rd-towers/
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I put a Samson on ours when we bought it in 2007. At that time, Samson was a smaller company. I sketched what I wanted, game them some direction and they built it. They also installed it for me.
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I always thought the OEM Cobalt towers were Samson built? At least for the stuff in the early 2000's like ours. They may be a spendy but the tower on our 222, which should be really close to the tower you would want on a 232, is built really really well. Buddy of mine who was with us last week even remarked at how good the welds on it looked. I would look on their website to see if they have something that fits first.
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Roswell made mine for the factory. Check them out as well
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I am considering the Samson Blade as well - I'm sure it is very well made and top of the line if they made it for the factory. With Bimini they will run around $3500 so it's not cheap. But no one ever said boating was cheap... in fact it's the polar freakin opposite of cheap!
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Mine was 6700 when I hit the garage. Opps.
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