Tubing is dangerous!

Here Here!!! and take the PWC's with them!

harddock wrote: Here Here!!! and take the PWC's with them!

   Wake board boats too!   

BTW wake surfing directly behind the boat will be illegal in Indiana as of July 1st.

Take your Fat Sac and go home.    

86BFN wrote: harddock wrote: Here Here!!! and take the PWC's with them!    Wake board boats too!    BTW wake surfing directly behind the boat will be illegal in Indiana as of July 1st. Take your Fat Sac and go home.

Next will be no barefooting before 8 am. You are disturbing the bass fishermen.

Any one I know Pete?

05 210 wrote: Everything these days is dangerous.

Mike reminds me of a classic bumper sticker.

"I REMEMBER WHEN SEX WAS SAFE & MOTOR RACING WAS DANGEROUS"

86BFN wrote: harddock wrote: Here Here!!! and take the PWC's with them!    Wake board boats too!    BTW wake surfing directly behind the boat will be illegal in Indiana as of July 1st. Take your Fat Sac and go home.

It is my understanding that wake surfing will only be illegal behind a boat with an outdrive.
Precisely why everything is so dangerous now. People are f-in idiots. If you need someone to tell you that it is dangerous to surf behind an i/o, you shouldnt even be allowed to own a boat.

Mike

Great post Pete!!

And sorry for all you wake boards out there but you can go too with your fat sacs...

Brady wrote: Any one I know Pete?

It was the Rod and Gun Club Thompsons. The one grandson ended up being transfered by air to Marshfield. He's not in very good condition.

I both agree and disagree with allot of the statements discussed in this thread. I don't like the wild erratic driving that usually goes along with tubing. Especially on the weekends when the lakes are most crowded and the weekend warrior thinks he owns the whole lake and drives as such. Add a few cold ones and you have a cocktail for disaster mixed up. Then on top of that..(like that experienced this weekend with the clarkebar) you got those who mess up decent water doing figure 8's and donuts trying to through off the rider. Well, if that is the case and what I don't understand is why not go to some place on the lake where the water is already rough. Isn't that the whole point?
I honestly believe that it's because allot of folks are an ALL ABOUT ME society these days and no courtousy is given out to any others enjoying what they do on the water. I stay away from the fishermen and if I see a slalom skier/boarder coming down the calm water I'm on, I will either slow down or speed up to minimize wake size unless I'm pulling a skier. It's called courtesy. I don't like it so I know they won't either.

The tubing industry is a multi million dollar business so outlawing them won't happen and as a wakeboarder I agree that some wakes that these boats put out are ridiculously large especially if those riding are beginners.
I do however love the idea of packing and shooting out the tubes of the many idiots I see out on the water but there again, it's the idiot driver most of the time who is paying attention to whats going on behind the boat instead of what's going on in front of him.

Eric, First fisherman are going to tell you they can fish anytime so yes they will be glad to have the lake to them selves @ 4 - 6am but they're not about to leave because you want to ski. Tubers are just as ignorant and will not adhere to a time frame. Then we still have to contend with kamakazee jet skiers that use ski boats with skiers as targets. Kayaks occasionally get in the way but they don't make wakes.
What tuely baffles me is with a whole big lake to use why can't I just have the slalom course and you guys get the rest.

I live on a lake whose name translates to "you fish on your side, I fish on my side, and nobody fish in the middle"

You think it could work for skiing as well.

Nautiquehunter wrote: What kind of boat capsizes by pulling a tube and turning?

Good question... And what size was that tube...???

Eric,
You are one of the few courteous tubers. Unfortunately, most are not.

Eric,
Luckly you guys where not killed.

Funny part is I personally have never seen very many CC owners pulling tubers. Bout the only thing I see ignorant is people taking these modle boats like mine, wieghing them down with tremendous weight or redoing the grapics and making look like it is a low rider car or truck...

(in ref. to eric 9:08am)

Hahahaha!!!    A little old man used to tell me that the most fun you could have with an inboard is to dive right into the rooster.   He claimed that it would shoot you up out of the water.   I never had the lugs to try it.

I cuncur, pulling tubes with overpowered pontoon barges is suddenly the rage here. Its nuts, they don't yield for anything.

It wasn't bad years ago when they all had 2-smokes and just putted around with a cocktail, because if they throttled up at all nobody could talk above the racket.

Now they are all zooming around, paying no care to who they are intersecting courses with.

I think 90% of tube-pullers don't understand that if they had to slow down to yield, their rider won't sink or fall, its a tube!