Mission Boat Gear Delta - Universal Surf Gate!

[Ruger761]

My new handle came in. Hopefully test it this weekend.

[TeamAllen]

I put one together. Decided to try the adjustable route. My son is taking it with him to Lake Powell later this week with some friends on their Tige. So I will have to wait for the results. I hope it holds together? Thanks for all of the inspiration!

[H20mobius]

Any chance I could grab the Solidworks files from you? In whatever format you have? That would be rad!

I did this in solidworks not auto cad and posted printable templates in pdf's back in post #125 of this thread http://www.tigeowners.com/forum/show...393#post764393

If you want dxf's I can convert them but I'm up at the lake for the next week and didn't bring my computer with me so you'll have to wait.

Separately I have been not terribly pleased with the wave I get with the gate low (below) the ledge/step on the side of the boat. It tends to roll my wave over and I couldn't get the taps to clean it up at any setting. So I started moving it around on the hull and found that if put it up just above the step/ledge (not moving the fat is half in the water or right at the waterline) I can still get it to stay there and it makes a much bigger/longer and better push wave and the taps were effective at adjusting it like I'm used to with listing the boat. The problem is no matter how I deflect the gate the water comes spraying up and some spray ends up in my rear accessory compartment. It's not a ton but it does happen. So I agree just keep playing position and you'll soon find a spot that works great for your boat.

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[JohnnieMo]

Here is my podunk effort. I expect the plastic handle will fail so I didn't put a lot of time into this. About $20 for the HOD and the cutting board. Already had the brackets.







I used a block of wood to get a bit better angle. It's about 15 degrees. I was hoping it might help it from popping off.

Will test Sunday along with my TAPS3-Vx.

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[UNSTUCK]

It might float too.

[KXCORKY]

The plastic handles are junk. I have made 12 or so from the aluminum ones and they haven't moved an inch.

[Ruger761]

New one built ready to test it out but probably be next weekend

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[JohnnieMo]

The plastic handles are junk. I have made 12 or so from the aluminum ones and they haven't moved an inch.

Aluminum handles don't ship to Canada.

It might float too.

Nope. It don't.

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[dukesofhazzard]

princess auto plastic orange one works good, never comes off

[Stingreye]

Can't remember where I saw it but some of these are rusting out... apparently this one has the stainless hardware and is suitable for marine environment.
http://www.westmarine.com/buy/seatea...FVFgfgodEC0MyA

http://www.seastow.com/quick-grip-handle.html

Claims it floats....

[Mullinsdan]

Been reading through this thread for the past few weeks and thought I would give a suck-gate a try before I laid out $500.. Haven't been out to see if or how it works, but thought I would post a few pics of the design. Will head out to the lake this weekend and will post pics of the before and after wave. IMG_6569.jpgIMG_6570.jpgIMG_6571.jpgIMG_6566.jpg

[KXCORKY]

Can't remember where I saw it but some of these are rusting out... apparently this one has the stainless hardware and is suitable for marine environment.
http://www.westmarine.com/buy/seatea...FVFgfgodEC0MyA

http://www.seastow.com/quick-grip-handle.html

Claims it floats....

I got one aluminum handle that had coated springs and one that did not, I would suggest taking in apart and coating those springs to prevent that, they will rust after the first use.

Seastow handles do float, Amazon is out of stock on them though, and the "replica's" they have on there do not stick.

[NICKYPOO]

Sold. We ran it on a buddy's 21v yesterday and had fantastic results. He has no ballast system but we had a hand filled 400 in the port locker, 3 adults and 4 small children. The wake without was a bit of a mess. There was so much wash that it rendered the back half of the wake useless. With the suckgate on it was instantly way better. All the wash was gone, the pocket was twice as long and it had tons of power at the back of the wake. It had a very heavy curl off the lip that when it hit your leg was like throwing an anchor out. His platform is dragging a bit and you can see it in the first two pics so, we'll have to fix that up. For some reason it was only really prevalent while I was riding. The gate would not stick to the Tige graphic on the back section of the side so we ran it ahead of that which put the cutting board near the front of the rear compartments. The angled sections of the shelf supports fell out at some point. We didn't even notice until we switched sides. OK, stick with me here. We only had one goofy rider, the owner of the boat. He is not a patient man and very new to wakesurfing. He decided we should just leave the 400 in the port locker full and just switch the gate to the other side and see what happens. It worked and he had the best day he's ever had wakesurfing. I'm sold. Sorry Duff. It was more of a skim style wake (fine with me) and the lip, which was all wash before anyways, was definitely cut off when I would ride but seemed to get nicer and nicer as the rider weights dropped. More weight in the boat.

These two pics are without gate and with gate. I used the rope to show the same spot behind the boat. Rider is 6ft.

[NICKYPOO]

Next up...

My fatass is now in the boat and you can see the platform drag line is almost gone. Rider is 5'8". Code name "Jazzhands".

[NICKYPOO]

...and for the coup de grâce, 400lbs in opposite side, 0lbs in surf side, one wounded suckgate at least 3ft ahead of the transom. Rider is 5'10".