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Irydslow wrote: LOL! I hope you were trying to be funny....trying...

Chris,
I was NOT trying to be funny but rather very serious. There are many here on site and I am one of them who do not think highly of tubing. Read the thread I linked on getting the kids out on the water. Do them a favor and teach them a sport.

Is that just one regular length of rope tied from one tube to the other that slips through the ring? If so, I would at least use proper ski ropes.
Tubing has its place imo. I would rather see a kid on a tube, than a wake surfer plowing up the lake....

8122pbrainard wrote: Irydslow wrote: LOL! I hope you were trying to be funny....trying... Chris, I was NOT trying to be funny but rather very serious. There are many here on site and I am one of them who do not think highly of tubing. Read the thread I linked on getting the kids out on the water. Do them a favor and teach them a sport.

Oh boy...so I should be more like you? Your way is the true boat puller way. All others must listen to you...and it's okay to 'troll' me because I'm a 'newbie' to this site. That's a wee bit presumptuous...and if you contribute that much to this site, you'd think you might have learned when you're being insulting and rude. My 9 year old son and his friends like to get dragged on a tube behind a classic CorrectCraft that I resurrected from the dead, so what?!

Where to start with telling you what I know about your 'sport' that I should be teaching my kids...I grew up on the St. Lawrence River in NY and my father taught me how to handle a boat by myself by the time I was 6. I lived with my brother in Orlando while attending college. My brother was friends with Tony Finn when he lived in CA. Tony Finn is credited with inventing 'wakeboarding' which was marketed then under the name 'Skurfer', and my brother helped him take the sport national. I actually rode many of the prototype shapes for 'Skurfer' when I lived in Orlando. Now I know you're not going to like this, but I was also a 'test pilot' for Bump-R-Ride tubes conducting R&D on various materials for manufacturing when 'tubing' was just emerging as a marketable activity. I was a driver and rider in photoshoots in FL for Bump-R-Ride, and appeared in many of the ski magazines. I'm no newb. I've been getting pulled behind boats on skis, wakeboards, tubes, and barefoot for many many years.

I have elitist bungholes on my lake too that act like they own the water and have the right to opine on what people do and how they use their boats. My opinion is anything pulled behind a boat is a 'toy', so don't take yourself too seriously Pete. If people want to enjoy themselves doing what ever makes them happy, so be it. Leave them alone.

Btw, I'll tie my ropes off to my rearview mirror if I feel like it.

Irydslow wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: Irydslow wrote: LOL! I hope you were trying to be funny....trying... Chris, I was NOT trying to be funny but rather very serious. There are many here on site and I am one of them who do not think highly of tubing. Read the thread I linked on getting the kids out on the water. Do them a favor and teach them a sport. Oh boy...so I should be more like you? Your way is the true boat puller way. All others must listen to you...and it's okay to 'troll' me because I'm a 'newbie' to this site. That's a wee bit presumptuous...and if you contribute that much to this site, you'd think you might have learned when you're being insulting and rude. My 9 year old son and his friends like to get dragged on a tube behind a classic CorrectCraft that I resurrected from the dead, so what?!

Chris,
Thanks for filling us in on your background. You'll find members here with the same as well as common interests.

My opinions regarding tubing revolve around two basics. The first is the disregard for others on the lake who would like some smooth water. Yes, wake boarding and surfing create large wakes as well but unlike tubing, those wakes are typically not from the random directions from the typical tuber. The other, and a big concern of mine is the proven poor safety of the activity. A search reveals the shocking number of injuries and those are only the documented cases.

Stick around, get to know the membership, utilize the fantastic resources of the site and make it to one of the CCfan get together's/reunions.

A certified tube expert!

Irydslow wrote: My 9 year old son and his friends like to get dragged on a tube my father taught me how to handle a boat by myself by the time I was 6.

How about some photos of your SW?