[Weekday warrior]

I'm thinking about adding a tower with top drive to my 16' shoalwater cat. I have searched around but not finding much. Can you guys that have one please post some pics so I can have some ideas. I think I'm gonna keep my center console and regular controls. I'm near corpus if anyone wants to recommend anyone in the area. Thanks guys.

 

[mardigrastopsntails]

The first pic is my boat and I love it. It was done by coastline marine in Seabrook. The other pictures are some really cool topdrives that are made by a company out of Florida called Quality T-Tops. Should get you started. The options are limitless. I really like the casting platform option that mine has off the back.

 

[cgd]

That's some sweet setups.

 

[troutsupport]

very nice

 

[Top Drive]

Mine was done by Texas Tops. I looked for a website for them, but didn't find one.

 

[wellconnected]

For a small boat like yours, I would look at the small tower boeker was building for the 16' majek texas skiffs. I think the size is proportional to the size of the boat. There is a picture of a majek texas skiff with the tower on the Houston craigslist right now. I had priced it with boeker and the cost was reasonable.

 

[Im Headed South]

Good looking work, that last one is probably a $ 10 to $12,000 tower.

 

[Weekday warrior]

I have seen that majek. I like it. I think I wanna keep my console and build over it. Wanna keep it simple like this one. Thanks for the responses. Keep em coming.

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[letsgofishbro]

Call gene at shoalwater. Their aluminum guy does great work. I run a buddies 23 shoalwater with a tower. Send me your email or #and I can send you pics

 

[CoastalOutfitters]

I'm thinking about adding a tower with top drive to my 16' shoalwater cat. I have searched around but not finding much. Can you guys that have one please post some pics so I can have some ideas. I think I'm gonna keep my center console and regular controls. I'm near corpus if anyone wants to recommend anyone in the area. Thanks guys.

16' is not a lot of boat to play with, top-drives really throw off your center of gravity.

might take a 6' folding ladder out in the water w you and stand on it and rock around, it will give you a feel for how the hull is going to react.

extra binnacle and steering prob. at least another $1500 plus the cost of the tower and rigging and cables.