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I am wondering if anyone pulls tubes from their pop up pylon on the san I know they say not too but I imagine some people have tried. I used to pull from my ski pylon on my old boat and it flexed pretty good. I haven't got to use the new boat as its winter. Just curious thats all.
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Who said not to if you get the pop up with ring you could lift the boat with it.
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Besides the fact that they are tubes, you mean...the WakeSlayer
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I never understand why people with world class wakeboard boats tow tubes? I simply do not allow them on my boat, period. We wakeboard, ski, and surf. When I get somebody new on the boat I teach them to do something I love, it usually only takes 5-10 minutes. They end the day much happier than they would if they went tubing. I am sure all of the others on the lake also appreciate this much more too.
Now thats off my chest, if you must tow the tube, then do it from the rear lifting ring (does your SAN have a lifting ring or two D rings?). If it's a smaller tube with smaller kids the tower is probably fine, just don't do too much turning or other side loading of the tower.Comment
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Yeah, when the whole family gets together they all like the tubes plus its fun to watch on those fast corners lol2008 SANTE 210 Orange Baby! Current
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tubing behind a nautique is the best!!! the wake is really steep HAHA
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Originally posted by saceonetubing behind a nautique is the best!!! the wake is really steep HAHA
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT BUDDY!Comment
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I don't know if that was sarcasm but where I'm from, 8-12'' of chop is a GOOD DAY...so tubing is the easiest/most fun alternative to bad conditionsComment
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The reason I will buy a world class wake boat[SANTE210] is itOriginally posted by Mikeski
will pull tubes or skis or boards or anything else I decide to hook
up to it. If its fun its for me . As for the others on the lake I am
usually on lake Michigan nobody there will care.Comment
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Mikeski,
I never understand posts like yours? Why would someone want to buy a Bayliner or SeaRay for tubing and be left disappointed when they want to wakeboard or jump kneeboarding? Most of the people on here are families with kids and kids=tubes at one point in their water career. Just look at some of the Nautique ads in the mags. Yes, there is a time and a place for tubes, but you bet your arse it's going to be behind a world class wakeboard boat for me..Comment
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To Mikeski's point, perhaps it is like never taking the training wheels off the bike or moving from T-Ball to fast pitch, teach new skills, get them excited about it and the new skier will always come away smiling, totally agree with what he is saying however I am not 100% against tubing, just not a big fan of it, particularly when some knucklehead comes out and tears up a calm body of water running and turning all over the place.
Apex, personally would not pull a tube from a lifting ring, really don't think pulling from the tower or the pylon is a big deal, just be smart about it, if the tube flips or your rider falls slow down immediately, right the tube on the way back to the rider. Pulling from the tower will also plane the tube out very quickly and the high pull point will eliminate a lot of drag.
Hunter, where do you put in and boat on Lake Michigan? It can be a great place to ski on a calm day although I havn't been out there in many years.Comment
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My kids ski, wakeboard, barefoot, etc. But in the weekend afternoons, they like to tube because the water conditions aren't ideal for much else. I'm not going to have a Nautique for one and another boat for the other. I use my Nautique for all of it. I'm not the biggest fan of tubing because it's boring and wastes gas, but why knock those that like to do it? Happy New Year!Ski on dude!Comment
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The only time I have ever pulled a tube was to get the little kids used to the idea of being behind the boat. By little I'm talking about under four years old or never behind a boat at all. I have four kids all of them were wakeboarding by age 6 - gradual baby steps from riding with mom in the tube to tube by themselves onto the kneeboard with mom and gradually to the wakeboard. It's all about courtesy of others not Nautiques pulling tubes. At least the guy pulling the tube from a Nautique had enough sense to buy a quality boat rather than the once in a while out on his bayliner guy. The Nautiques is see pulling tubes have drivers with more common sense than the others with reckless abandon going where they please. Now that my family no longer requires a tube - I no longer own one.2006 SANTE 210 (Pending Sale)
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We pull our tube riders from the tower and from the plyon - depends on who is in the tube and how much air we want them to get
We take our friends and their families on our boat and the one thing all the kids like to do is tube - I was the same way when I was a kid. With all the storage on the boats now you can store the tube and when you need it inflate and then when you are done it gets put away... happy days Merry Christmas!
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I am with Mikeski
Case in point. I had waited all winter to ski behind my new 211. First thing in the morning the water was glass. There were four boats on the whole lake. Three of them were pulling tubes and doing the S turn thing. Two were nice v-drive boats. My ski was less than fun. Tubes have there place but most people that pull tubes don't realize what they do to the whole lake.Comment
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