Best place to connect for tubing?

[Bearcamp]

I have a 1981 Glastron with a 90 hp Mercury. Just bought it and decided to go out tubing. Works fine til I give her gas and then it pulls the tube under water. That's only about 1/2 throttle. Now,,,,I'm using a 60 ft. rope and connecting on the transom of the boat right where I strap it to the trailer. It just seems too low as when I'm moving it's under water. These are the only eye hooks I have on the rear. Any ideas?

 

[QC]

Re: Best place to connect for tubing?

First you should get a towing harness that hooks to both transom eyes and has a loop or even a pulley type deal that helps it pull from the middle. Then Tubes will go under at just above wakeless speeds. Your first tug on a tube needs to be most if not all of what you got. Once they get above around 10 MPH they stay up. The problem is the transition, so you need to bust through that with a good burst of power . . . Height should not matter that much, it is too low speed pulling it down, not the angle.

 

[Bearcamp]

Re: Best place to connect for tubing?

I have the harness with the pulley. It sorta sounds like I wasn't doing something right as I was going slow and slowly increasing speed. Although I did look at others with outboards like I have and they also had rings,,,,,but higher.

 

[mike176]

Re: Best place to connect for tubing?

Make sure the rider is moving as far back on the tube as possible when your starting it or the tube will plow down. I pull my tube in the same place alll the time and do not have any problems unless the tuber does not move there weight to the rear of the tube.

 

[fishingdan]

Re: Best place to connect for tubing?

Does your tube have a liner or is it an old fashioned tube with a harness (ie the hole is open to the water)?

Every tubes with a liner that I have owned pops right up.

 

[Bearcamp]

Re: Best place to connect for tubing?

Liner with a closed bottom.

 

[studlymandingo]

Re: Best place to connect for tubing?

(ie the hole is open to the water)?

That sounds like an enema waiting to happen