The courteous tuber?

True bfn my boat would probably look bad up there anyways haha.

If I have the money to pull the boat that far I may.

haha nice feel good, we do fly by's of ski lane parkers depending upon what kind of mood were in.

Yea bfn I would know that if I could foot haha which hopefully will happen next season.

Yeaa tubers are always in the way driving in an unpredictable manner with has been previously stated. When I do pull tubers(it has to be to rough to do anything else) I observe the counter clock wise ski lane and never do round in circles crap becasue I dont need that to throw people off(evil laugh). And what buggssss the crap out of me like many of you is the ONLY smooth part on our lake during the day gets clogged up with about 20 to 30 pontoons and anchored boats. At that point I either throw out anchor or go get the tubes. They dont understand that slalom skiing takes wayyy smother water than any other water sport. Theres also the wakeboarders in their 70,000 doller daddy baught it boats that go every which way creating ocean swells.

Behind,

The guy's are real good about cleaning up on our lake, even the stuff we leave behind, skied on Saturday and left our mark once again!

Hello all - We are newbies & have been getting great info from your site since becoming a SN owner a month ago.

I would like to relate an incident from last summer - I was pulling my son on a local river (the mighty Shell Rock) which is pretty narrow.

This 20' I/O pulling a skier came up, almost dead on (literaly) about 50yds behind my son who was freaking out. They then proceeded to pass us within 15 yds. The 16 YO kid was driving so I chalked that one to to youthful indiscretion. Well an hour later a they did practically the same thing & this time it was the dad driving.

My point is that it's the people not the equipment that creates the situation.

BTW, we always slow down when we come up to someone getting lined up & idle past.
No one else around here does that, maybe that could be a new trend.

   It's not the tube that is the problem.Yeah,it's basically a no brainer,non sport activity for the kids,but they love it.You can get injured doing just about anything nowadays.I have two tubes and occassionally take the kids tubing.I do not let them go more than once a day,and I don't let them go more than once without skiing or wakeboarding in between,however ,I will never ASK them if they want to tube and will take them boarding or skiing as much as they want.
   Our lake is extremely busy on weekends and I share the same sentiment about the good water...unless it's 6 am,someone's always screwing it up.I have come to realize the water usually sucks from 9 am to 6pm Sat & Sun so I don't usually bother to try to ride anyway.
BTW,if I take my kids out to tube and we can't find a spot away from skiers/boarders so as not to ruin the water,we go back to the dock w/o tubing.
   On another note, I recently learned to wakesurf (which I highly recommend to those who haven't tried it)...It's a blast,but most likely will be banned soon due to the enormous roller that is generated .If you think tubers ruin the water,try skiing thru one of those wakes.
   These discourteous boaters aren't any safer on the streets.If you ride a motorcycle,you know exactly what I'm talking about.The world is full of em.
   Sorry for the long post.

      Mike

I stand by quinner's statement in my signature. I do own a tube, its for girls and people that otherwise can't do anything on the water. I'd rather pull them on that then spend 2 hours turning around trying to get them up on skis. I usually leave it anchored out in the bay when I take it out with me and some clown in a fishing boat picked it up once (anchor and all) and started tubing. We started yellin and he stopped, I pulled up and asked him if he grabbed the anchor and he holds it up without the rope, as I go to ask about the rope I look closer at the back of the boat and he is using it to tube. He has a sinking anchor rope, *tied* to one cleat next to his outboard motor. I told him to drop it where he found it when he was done and figured the cost of an anchor rope is well worth watching him ruin his day. Unfortunately he didn't get it caught up nor did he even drop the tube in the bay. When we went to pick it up his moron friend throws us the anchor rope and asks for a pull on the tube behind my boat. We changed out the rope and Hollywood took him for a 40 mph tube ride where he tumbled off twice. As sauced as the guy was he was still feeling plenty of pain. My favorite part about tubers is when you raise your arms and give them a "what the hell is the matter with you" gesture they smile and wave. And fishermen that park in the ski pattern get the complimentary 40+mph barefoot fly by.

I think the real problem is most people who pull tubes, especially in an inconsiderate manner, don't ski. They simply don't know the glory of good water. I'd wager that a polite conversation, if possible, would enlighten most.

The others, well, thats why potato guns were invented.

Even my cat likes to tube! Boaty and Skipper were driving the boat while I filmed. Maybe this is actually a bad example of tubing, AND it wasn't me. Everyone have a fun and safe weekend, I'm out. Oh, and on a good note, we got rain today. Just the third time in three months.
my cat

This time of year always brings on a new challenge on our lake, the bird season is now open so we have to contend with a couple hunting blinds on the lake. A couple years ago Booby and I where out rippin it up right in front of the blind as that was the best water, the next day got a call from my buddy who is in the hunting group, appearantly there where a couple guy's in the blind ready to shoot us every time we made another pass, my response being we really didn't know they where even in there, which we didn't, his response being, now that's the point of the blind now isn't it!

The topper was when we finished up for the day we jammed all our empty beer cans on the bills of the decoy's, lucky thing they had already given up the hunt that day or Booby and I would still be pulling bird shot out of our backsides!

Todd, The children are beautiful and they are certainly having a good time. I would vomit if anything ever happened to any one of them. We haven't even talked about the potential of injuries.

tubing injuries

We can't protect our children from all the dangers of life but to intentionally put them through a activity that may harm them is a different story!

quinner wrote: Pete, suprised yes but let us also remember the other word I used was Impressed! Read Feelgoods signature sometime and you will have a pretty good idea about my take on tubing.

Here it is!!

"Tubing isn't even a sport, it just f**ks up the water for the rest of us" -Quinner to a tuber behind a fishing boat on his private lake.

I like it.

Pete, suprised yes but let us also remember the other word I used was Impressed!

Read Feelgoods signature sometime and you will have a pretty good idea about my take on tubing.