Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

My 60ft tube rope is not long enough. Tubing over 30MPH gets spay all in your face so a 70-75ft rope might help with that.

I have looked everywhere but all I can find in that length is ski ropes.
Can someone please link me to one?

Thanks

Something like this may be more advantageous than a longer rope.

http://www.amazon.com/SPORTSSTUFF-53-20 ... oster+Ball

The rope will still have a poor angle to the tube and cause spray in the face if you don't have a tall tow point on the boat.

The issue is not the rope causing the spray. Its the rooster tails from the prop. My rope attaches about 6" above the outboard so its up pretty high. Just need to get the tube further back.

Thanks

Pretty much every tube rope I've seen is 60ft, I have one 65ft but I bought that one 10+ years ago. Tubes over 30mph = recipe for disaster IMO, anything over 25mph starts getting into serious injury range. ~25mph is where my wakes start converging right at the tube and creates nasty spray also.

Excellent reply. I think I will just slow it down a bit.
Many thanks.

wrd1972 wrote:The issue is not the rope causing the spray. Its the rooster tails from the prop. My rope attaches about 6" above the outboard so its up pretty high. Just need to get the tube further back.

Thanks

Are you sure your motor is mounted at the proper height and trimmed properly? I could be wrong, but that seems like a long ways for rooster tails to be hitting the tuber in the face.

I would be interested in knowing the stats on tubing injuries. I have been enjoying water sports behind boats since I was a pup and have tried just about everything and the most terrified I have been is behind a boat on a tube. Guess I'm just a control freak. Not much a rider can or needs to do but hang the ell on. Not much fun and good way to get hurt. Driver has all the responsibility. My sons gal friend who has spent the last two summers on the lake with us learning and doing the activities we do like skiing, knee boarding, surfing with a rope, ect, asked if we had a tube.? Yep we have one let me dig it out. She couldn't figure out why she couldn't get it out of the wake. That's my point you don't without the boat going ell bent for leather and whipping you out. Sorry for the rant just not a tube fan would rather see a kid learn a skill like skiing.

Tubing for us takes one of two routes.

We either speed it enough for younger folks to get a bit of fun or there's one of us on the tube with a beer in one hand and a cigar in the other enjoying the view and the weather.

The beer and cigar route usually sees the speed at 3-5 mph.

CapKaz wrote:... She couldn't figure out why she couldn't get it out of the wake. That's my point you don't without the boat going ell bent for leather and whipping you out. Sorry for the rant just not a tube fan would rather see a kid learn a skill like skiing.

Actually there are now tubes that do just that.... With the VEER tow system my XXL adult sized self was in and out of the wake my first time on a tube period....

I second CapKaz's post. We are a big tubing family, I am completely confused watching parents pull their adolescent kids around on tubes going 25-30mph and more once they are "whipped". Especially with two or more kids hitting the water at the same time...on top of each other.

Spend the money on a u-shaped tube with fins on the bottom. I have kids "slaloming" in and out of the wake going as little as 15mph. Much easier on the passengers as well without all of the turning back and forth.

WE use to tube with my friends jet boat when we were early 20's. we would be doing 40mph trying to knock of the rider. Next day we could barely walk, we would hit the water so hard that there should have been broken backs or necks. Even going 20 now you see how it whips around when turning. last week a guy was coming 30' from shore with his small children, it was shallow and rocky I really wanted to smack him.