Tubing is dangerous!

Yeah! i guess we're doing it all wrong. They're whoopin it up with a barge full of bikini and margaritas, and we're grumpy as Gran Torino.

GottaSki wrote: Yeah! i guess we're doing it all wrong. They're whoopin it up with a barge full of bikini and margaritas, and we're grumpy as Gran Torino.

Tom-
Not sure what is wrong with your boat, but bikinis fit in mine!

Have to agree with Eric on this one, if my kids want to tube and that gets them wanting to get out of the house to spend time on the lake, I will pull them all day. My kids like to tube and wakeboard, for some reason can't get them skiing yet. Tubes aren't a problem but good luck changing the attitudes of some people out there.

I also love reading posts about others customizing THEIR boats, if I wanted to change the colour of my boat and ad wild graphics, why would that offend other CC owners?

[QUOTE=azeus17] skicat-

I agree with you...most are complete a-holes. However, I am staring to lose faith in our inboard family. Seems every time I am out on the water I see another ski/wake boat show total disregard for anyone else on the water. Granted, these are more often than not a newer $50k+ boat that mommy and daddy bought for Jr. to tear up, but the point still stands. Seems it is no longer just your low dollar "bayliners" causing all the trouble. I know 99% of the people on this site know, and follow, the "rules of the road", but unfortunatly, we are only a very small percentage of the inboard family.

Adam,

I would have to agree with you. There are some stupid inboard guys that dont know the family tradition of them. As you stated, most of them are the 50ks, (most of them are master crafts in my lake)

and they are in there 20's bumping that darn jigga booo music throwing a massive wake, and it is one after the other. And it seems these a holes are realy not looking for good water, crap they are tearing up the good water. Different class of peps. Glad to be a part of a special inboard family, cause it makes it nice when the older inboards coming rolling by or it is you and we wave at one another.

My thought is,   If you have bought a tournament style inboard for weekend use on public waterways.
Either get used to it or re-evaluate.

Peter, enough to pop a tube with a stick near shore, I told this once before that one of my friends was talking out of school (the wifes were around) winged his ass off at a 20 by 20 island and left him there for a few hours. we always used the tube to punish or hurt someone, "you dont get back on the boat until you are hurt"
much wiser and safer nowadays. I will admit that I was one of those a-holes that owned a boat. and I seen the light, anymore if i even see a skier down and they dont have their flag up we head right over to the boat and make sure they have their flag up. went from one extreme to another. with a boat the odds are very high that someone could easily get hurt or killed, I probably dont have enough fingers to count on to the close calls i personally have had on a boat.
I always urge people to take a boaters safety course, not just for their safety but for others safety out there

DrCC wrote: My thought is,   If you have bought a tournament style inboard for weekend use on public waterways. Either get used to it or re-evaluate.

Pretty much what it comes down to. With that said though last time were out I was dropping in at 6:45am and what drives by but a big honkin I/O pulling two tubes. I couldn't freaking believe it. This dip*************** actually pulled all the way to the docks which is at least 100' INSIDE the no wake bouys with people on both tubes still doing about 20mph. He picked up some more people and powered right out while my boat was getting slammed all over the trailer, classic ***************

Im surprised he walked away from that one. I wonder if he loads it on the trailer the same way at 20mph pulling tubes. what an jack a%s

Not a bad idea, but some states aren't interested. It gets killed in Maine everytime and never gets out of committee. Here you have to be 16 and have boater safety to drive a jet ski, but as long as you are 12 you are legal to drive a 3,000 hp Cigarette boat or a Correct Craft with no boater safety. Under 10 hp, no limts what so ever.

Peter, I believe NH is mandatory for everyone.

you are right Bruce in the early days of the law you could go online and take tests from other states and be grandfathered in.   i think i took mine from puerto rico if i remember   thats a state right?

peter1234 wrote: you are right Bruce in the early days of the law you could go online and take tests from other states and be grandfathered in.   i think i took mine from puerto rico if i remember   thats a state right?

No Peter,
Now you get the on line certification from China.

anyone see the latest issue of boatingg magazine?1 page article on how to drive while tubing.i dont recommend reading unless you want to erupt,i hate that magazine.its teaching you how to be a a$$.

That's dirty pool Al...especially for dumb people like me who are gullible (or bored) enough to look through the reference section to find it. And yes, I did that.

I am not sure but I thought I did a write up on here a few years back on how to pull a tuber, I will have to read the boating magazine article for comparison.

Al,