Not the best of Memorial weekends

[TigeDuner]

Imagine surfing behind your boat (2005 24V) and you see smoke coming out your bilge vents. Not the best way to start a weekend. Stopped surfing and turned the battery switch off immediately. To keep the story short, I found that the positive cable had been rubbing on the heat sink for the Perfect Pass unit mounted above the port battery. Once the cable made contact with the heat sink, it grounded out the unit, which began melting the insulation on the perfect pass cable that connects to the throttle linkage. This then began grounding the Morris cable to the throttle and so on. The cruise unit still works but the cable to the unit is cooked and will need to be replaced. The Morris cable finally freed up to give us 3/4 throttle so we enjoyed the next day without cruise and no ballast since it was a bitch to hold the speed steady.
All fine UNTIL we see the welds on the tower (stock Tige Tower for 05) are broken on both sides and the tower is about to drop on the boat. The welds broke and ripped the aluminum just above the board racks where the tubes come together.
We made it home from the lake (3 hours) with the tower folded down on the deck. Not sure how to proceed with the tower issue. I need to find a cable for the perfect pass (Tige version) and I will need to get a new throttle since the 12v charge has melted most of the grease in the cable.
I suppose we are lucky that the boat did not go down in flames and the tower did not completely snap while pulling somebody.
Any ideas with my issues are appreciated.

[ajholt7]

That sux. Hope you can get it all resolved quickly and salvage your season.

[sooner25]

Good luck. I thought my weekend was bad, but you have trumped me. We woke up Friday morning at the cabin with a flat tire on the trailer. Then we make it to the water and the bimini top frame fails, rips all the seams out of the canvas, and we lost half of the frame in the water. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do about it, but I definitely have less worries than you.

[talltigeguy]

Sorry to hear that. Best of luck in getting that fixed quickly.

I think I have not heard of the 05 towers failing, bummer.

[TigeTrojan]

I have one idea for a solution but it depends on what your boat insurance policy looks like. Seriously, I'm sorry to hear that and I hope you get it all back to working order soon and without spending too much.

[skippabcool]

Sorry to hear about your weekend. Best of luck to you in getting it fixed.

[MooseX]

damn...sorry to hear all that. you beat my 8 inches of snow friday and saturday by a mile.

[TigeDuner]

Well it appears my tower may have had some bad welds or bad material. I plan to contact Tige in the morning to see what they may do or if I can find a new or used tower to replace this one. I have considered welding this one up with the addition of 2 gusset plates at the two areas where the metal has ripped and the welds broke, but am not sure yet.
I need to find the cable for the perfect pass. Who sells parts for these units? (Wakeboard Pro)
The AZ Tige dealer is an RV dealer now and I don't need my RV fixed. Not sure where to go now...

[TigeDuner]

I'm open to anything at this point. Speak...

[4bw]

You can get perfect pass parts directly from them. They are great to work with. You get their # at http://www.perfectpass.com

[TigeDuner]

Spoke with Harvey today at Tige and he said to send pictures and he would check with the tower builders to try and determine the problem. I will try and post a few pictures here as well.

Also Gary at Perfect Pass called and said he could help me out with the cable that cooked. Things are looking up...

[Dave S]

Yeah, your problems really beat my dead battery issue. I hope you can get it fixed quickly and back on the water to enjoy the rest of your summer!

[Vicseek]

wow; and I thought my totaled prop and bent skeggs were bad this weekeend.
I hope you get back out there soon!

[TigeDuner]

Harvey at Tige found a top portion to the E tower at their facility. Now the question is how much for the little jewel????

[Iwndr]

Harvey at Tige found a top portion to the E tower at their facility. Now the question is how much for the little jewel????

So it was a E series tower that failed? Do you have pictures?