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Ask any experienced wakeboarder and they’re going to tell you that there is not any such thing as a good and inexpensive wakeboard winch. The wakeboard winch is your lifeline when you’re out there wakeboarding and if you go inexpensive, and something goes belly up, then you only have yourself at fault. So do yourself a favor and make sure that if you are buying a wakeboard winch that you plan on investing top dollar in the best wakeboard winch you can find and that you will also make sure to get someone with the required qualifications to install this very important piece of wakeboarding equipment.
Recently there’s been a need among a lot of folks to build their own wakeboard winch and this could go one of 2 ways. If you don’t know what you do and you are attempting to learn as you go along then that’s great but do not take your first few experiments out on the open water to check them. If you are new to building a wakeboard winch you will probably want to test your first few winches under controlled conditions where there is little to no chance that anyone will get hurt. The other way this may go is if you make a decision to build your own wakeboard winch to save cash. As was discussed before an inexpensive wakeboard winch isn’t the kind that you need to be attached to.
The only right way to build a quality winch is to do it either under the supervision of someone with experience or if you have the necessary experience yourself. You also have to recollect that the winch itself is only half of the battle. You still have to install it into your boat and you have to install it in such a way that it does not damage your boat and it doesn’t have the potential to fail on you during operation. The only possible way to guard against this is to understand what you do or have somebody that knows what they are doing help you build your winch. If you try to do it yourself without the correct information then you’re setting yourself up for a potential disaster.
A wakeboard winch is a very important piece of wakeboarding equipment that is every bit as important as the boat itself. Taking shortcuts on your winch is a sure way to invite disaster and wakeboarding is tricky enough without adding the additional component of flawed equipment into the melting pot.
#1 by Jim Nariel on February 28, 2010 - 5:04 pm
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Have been Waterskiing and just really started Wakeboarding and love it – good article on the winch and will take this on board – thank you