Mission boat gear???

[CMAC21]

I found this product that basically makes you boat like a surf edition model. It's made by mission boat gear and honestly looks like it works really good but I don't know if it would work well with my boat(06 möbius lsv). Have any of you guys tried this or rode behind it?

http://www.missionboatgear.com

[trayson]

All they are doing is making their own version of a "ghetto gate". The idea of making a gate that does the same thing as the Malibu surfgate has been around for the past few years. People have been doing it with everything from plywood to plastic to HDPE to aluminum.

Most people will fab their own with scrap plywood that they have laying around, or they'll buy some HDPE (think cutting boards) and make their own.

For around $40 to $50 in materials (some cutting boards, a couple of ratchet straps, and some stainless steel screws) and an evening of your time, you can make one.


Looks like mission has made a fairly polished model, but honestly for $450 to $550, I think their price is absolutely ridiculous. And it's certainly not anything new. "wicked wake" has been making aftermarket surfgates too which are likewise overpriced.


To answer your question: YES. The gates on the side of the boat will indeed work to delay convergence of the waves coming off the back of your hull--just the the Malibu surfgate that started it all.

[sandm]

keeping in mind that not everyone wants to or has the ability to make something like this, price is not too far out of whack for a company that has to find multiple boats and create patterns that work.

[CMAC21]

I gotcha. That makes sense. I'll check around through the forums and see if I can find a easy one to build that works good. This seems pretty easy and convenient for sure

[JoelFett]

keeping in mind that not everyone wants to or has the ability to make something like this, price is not too far out of whack for a company that has to find multiple boats and create patterns that work.

Also, the $550+ price is for both PORT and STBD gates, custom fitted and finished. Single ones are less, and if you didn't have the tools, $550 is a whole lot less than $2K for the manual flow leftovers from the dealer.

[CMAC21]

Yea that's what I was thinking. I can definitely make some but that seems to be a pretty clean look and ease of putting on. But I think I'm going to spend a little time making some for each side. I've just seen so many pictures on here of different ways to build, trying to figure out what's best

[MJHSupra]

Yea that's what I was thinking. I can definitely make some but that seems to be a pretty clean look and ease of putting on. But I think I'm going to spend a little time making some for each side. I've just seen so many pictures on here of different ways to build, trying to figure out what's best

$500ish is not bad for 2 setups - port and star sides -if you do not want to mess around building one.
It looks like a good design.

On the website, I see them for Malibu and Axis. I know they run those boards at degrees of an angle from the boat.
Most of the Moomba self-built setups have the boards running straight back, not on an angle
I think Trayson built one on an angle. It's listed in another thread. He could speak to.

I wonder how much the angle can be adjusted.

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