Best Tube for 200 lb Rider

desertskier wrote: Just play along. And let's face it, if you have kids you have pulled tubes.

Nope!! They learned to ski and board like normal kids.

I was just kidding. I really have never ever pulled a tube and my kids have never ever been on one. Just like you guys.

Well I guess if you want info you have to go to the guy's who know-- link

Gary S wrote: Well I guess if you want info you have to go to the guy's who know-- link

'Gary,
Great link. It's always best to consult the experts. I can't think of a better group that knows more about the activity. They sure know what they are doing especially the ones with the 80K + boats.

Gary S wrote: You have to think higher than that Pete,you have to spend some serious money when your getting heated seats I'm holding out 'til they get cooled ones

Yup, now that you have been spending time down south, it's cooled rather than heated seats!! Speaking of old retired bell system employees with the south VS: north jokes, where's John been?

The MasterCraft and Malibu forums have good tube info. Go there.

I vote for the air chair as well. Have never done it but seen it often. X AirFoils does their testing on my lake with some real fancy spork-bow boats.. In fact, TX Foil head had said these guys are some of the very best in the whole world. Not saying you should do the crazy awesome flips and stuff they do, but done in moderation, it looks to provide a gentle fun ride.

Also would be the exact polar opposite from tubing on the cool scale.

8122pbrainard wrote: 75 Tique wrote: GottaSki wrote: Tubing Nationals are next week. I forgot about that. Pete may have already left, since they are in New Zealand this year. Probably won't be back till next Friday or Saturday to help us out here. Larry, Reporting again from "down under", I regret to say I didn't make it past the try outs. The ones who did make it were around 200 lbs, most on Super Screamers and being pulled by Mastercrafts or G23's!

Ha ha ha!!!! #Gamechanger

SteveHookEm wrote: I've owned or been around boats since before most of you were born I bet!

Nope, not me Steve. I've been around boats since I was about one year old.

Since we are talking about tubes, did anyone try a tube to barefoot step off over the wake?

SteveHookEm wrote: It's a laugh riot in here. haha I got my answer. Thanks for the help! Really.

Well, Steve. Welcome to CCF. Trial by fire. But you are a good sport and that will go a long ways around here. Did you really get your answer? Hope so. As a rule I don't do tubing. Until a year or so ago, I had never bought one and I've been doing this longer than you (I've got 10 years on you). My wife spotted one at a garage sale a year or two ago for $5 so I said sure, why not.   It was one of those 2 man, lay down on top kind. I never noticed that a regular 1 man tube had a weight restriction so I would guess one of those flat 2 mans would be fine for you. We rode ours 1 or 2 folks all the time.

I actually prefer the donut kind, reminds my of my growing up days, before 3/4s of the overtons catalogue was tubes and we used a real truck tire tube, the kind with the long valve stem that you could impale yourself on and the kind that you just tied the rope around and it would pinch down to the diameter of a pencil and stretch out about 15 feet before you planed off. I liked sitting with my butt in the middle, vs how most people lie down on them today. So that's why I prefer the donut ones vs the flat ones.

I have no problem with tubers as long as they STAY OUT OF THE SKI COVES AND FLAT WATER. Doing power turns and S turns may be fun for your rider but its ruins the water for everybody else. If you are going to tube have a little respect for others and do it in the main channel. Note the wake surfers could take the same advice . It simply amazes me that the same peeps that have been bitching for years about waverunners and tubers now think its perfectly fine to wakesurf all the way to the back of the ski cove.

75 Tique wrote: SteveHookEm wrote: It's a laugh riot in here. haha I got my answer. Thanks for the help! Really. Well, Steve. Welcome to CCF. Trial by fire. But you are a good sport and that will go a long ways around here. Did you really get your answer? Hope so. As a rule I don't do tubing. Until a year or so ago, I had never bought one and I've been doing this longer than you (I've got 10 years on you). My wife spotted one at a garage sale a year or two ago for $5 so I said sure, why not.   It was one of those 2 man, lay down on top kind. I never noticed that a regular 1 man tube had a weight restriction so I would guess one of those flat 2 mans would be fine for you. We rode ours 1 or 2 folks all the time. I actually prefer the donut kind, reminds my of my growing up days, before 3/4s of the overtons catalogue was tubes and we used a real truck tire tube, the kind with the long valve stem that you could impale yourself on and the kind that you just tied the rope around and it would pinch down to the diameter of a pencil and stretch out about 15 feet before you planed off. I liked sitting with my butt in the middle, vs how most people lie down on them today. So that's why I prefer the donut ones vs the flat ones.

Thanks! Gotta have a good sense of humor! I knew this thread would get some going! We're big skiiers (not just in size!) and my youngest is really getting into wakeboarding now! But a tube is fun and we never will mess up nice water for those that are skiing.

Orlando76 wrote: Y'all remember that tube about ten years ago who's objective and design was to go airborne and stay? That thing killed a few people. I forget the name and details... You had some cojones to ride that.

You mean the Wego Kite Tube of death?

Skip to the 1:55 mark for the fun.

It came with that nifty clear plastic window for you to look through right before it decided to try and kill you.