2001 Tige Metcraft Tower SNAPS...

[talltigeguy]

I've been in a boat with the NEW Metcraft tower. It is extremely solid. I'm especially fond of the way the bimini hooks up. I think the pic above with the orange looks ugly, but the boat I went on was orange and the orange tower was very sweet looking when put in with the gelcoat.

It's not plastic, but all metal. It's very similar to the Malibu Illusion tower, just turned differently and braced in the front. The only downside is that it is a bit shorter than my metcraft. I would say it's about 6 feet 2 inches from the floor of the 22V I was on (I'm guessing here).

[Tequilasun]

Yeah, must just be that pic.

Why do they keep making short towers though. I personally can't stand (pun?). I want the tower to be a minimum of 6'6" off the floor!

[bcskypilot]

talltigeguy
Where you in a boat with one of the new towers that fold down? It was still solid? No rattles or sway? How about the bimini, form the pic I have it looks like the tow rope would actually pull down the back part of the bimini if you had it in use...

[xpjim1]

Smendez says its 6'10 inches in his post. It looks alot shorter than that.

[LovinPowell]

bcskypilot:

where did you come up with that picture, is it from their website? If so, could you post the address.

[bcskypilot]

I received the picture in an email.

[Zacky]

The word is out on the street, or at least in our little community of Tige owners. I wonder if anybody at Metcraft has been advised of this forum? Even if they were, I am pretty sure they would not post. I would like to see Metcraft come on this board and offer up some explantion. Either they stand behind their product or they acknowledge the problem. OK, I'll keep dreaming...

About this out of warranty thing. I see that it keeps coming up. I can tell you that I received an "advisory notice" of a potential problem with the fuel injection on my car. The advisory notice came well after (a couple of years after) the warranty had expired. They stated in the notice that it was not a recall, just an advisory. Any repairs to the fuel injection after the date of the notice would be at the owners expense. Any repairs made prior to the notice and the owner would be reimbursed. Hmmmmmm...

[bcskypilot]

Liability... With all the lawyers crawling around it's really all about covering your butt...

I wonder if the people at Tige have talked to Metcraft about the problems with the towers. After all, they are the one's who used Metcraft as the manufacture. When people purchased their boats and towers they all came through Tige or a Tige rep I would assume, not Metcraft.

I talked to Bob at Metcraft at the very start of all of this and told him I had found multiple towers with the same problem out there on this site. I wouldn't be surprised if they checked it out and are waiting to see where it goes. Metcraft has made free repairs for people in the past. He offered to repair mine too until he saw how it had twisted. I was to pay shipping though...

He told me the problem area was a result of a specific design request from Tige. If I understood him correctly Tige wanted the tower to have the additional sections allowing it to be packaged and shipped easier. To create those sections we all ended up with the famous welds...

[Zacky]

Originally posted by bcskypilot
He told me the problem area was a result of a specific design request from Tige... [/B]

Translation- I built it the tower the way Tige wanted me to. It only snapped because of their specific design request. If you have problems, talk to them...

Ahh yes... the official passing of the buck.

[smendez]

For those of you who are interested in reading my experience with the Metcraft 2005 Evolution tower, here's a link to my review.

http://www.tigeowners.com/forum/show...3052#post13052

Saulo

[Zacky]

Hey bcskypilot-

Any update? What are you planning on doing about your tower?

[bcskypilot]

I am trying to work out a good deal with Metcraft on a new tower like the one pictured in the link above. I've emailed Bob and am waiting to see what my options may be... I haven't ruled out other towers yet so I am still open to ideas or suggestions that may help.

[scootc]

Doesn't Monster have a mounting set up that uses the same mounting holes as the Metcraft? They have a before and after picture of a 21v on their website.

[piggyfa]

Does anyone from Tige have a response to MetCraft telling bckypilot the following:

"the problem area was a result of a specific design request from Tige"?

[bcskypilot]

I hear such good things about the Monster Tower but I'm not 100% on the look of it... I would want a bimini that attached just to the tower, not the boat... Can you do that with a Monster Tower? For the record Tige has never said anything else to me since referring me back to Metcraft...