Fun Question Whats the smallest boat/ motor you've ever tube/ski/knee boarded behind?

[rrkyle]

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Haha ive done the knee boarding behind a quad a ton of times growin up in south Louisiana. The ditches are like 5 feet deep.

 

[Willyclay]

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Skied behind a Mark 25 powered 13ft plywood KittiCraft that was built in Savannah, GA.

 

[dan t.]

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when I was a teenager in the 60s my dad had a 14 ft plywood boat with a 18 hp Evenrude,we didnt have skis but a tobbogan worked pretty good as a knee board,if you felt real brave or stuped you could even stand up for a short while

 

[83Evinrude]

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My first boat was a 15ft fiberglass closed bow with a 40hp Johnson on it. With only two on board we did deep water slalom starts with it. Top speed was about 25mph on the speedo.

 

[Jane Warren]

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we had a little dinghy with a 25hp - didn't do much in tubing - but we could load up 3-4 tanks and go scuba diving! Just had to make sure nothing was on top of your flippers as you did a back roll entry into the water.
Wish I had video of it - would be a hit on YouTube.
Jane

 

[mphy98]

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A 12' john boat with a 5hp. we did the car innertube and a piece of rope. nasty ride, but wicked fun!!

 

[26aftcab454]

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as teenagers we used my 1975 chevy pick up with a 454ci to hydroslide in the surf at Crystal Beach,TX, built a tall pylon and used 150ft rope.
the beach patrol came by and just gave us the look and shook their heads at us.

 

[scoutabout]

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This looks like a blast. I love the sweet sound of that old evinrude too. Towing begins at about the 2 min mark...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGMDArb1QI

Now he just needs to teach his kid to keep some distance between the shore and the boat...Little close for comfort on a couple of those passes...

 

[Snobike Mike]

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I've towed the kids easily behind our 8 foot dinghy with a 9.9.

 

[JimMH]

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Smallest boat. 14ft jon boat with a 15HP johnson. I was 6 years old and we use to ski in a farm pond when we couldn't get to the lake during the week in the summer. I have also skied in TX in a round pond used for irrigation behind a pickup truck with a 20ft metal bar welded to a reciever hitch with a 25ft rope and handle. Gotta love those farm boys imagination

 

[Caravandaddy]

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Got pulled on a tube behind a laker canoe with a sea gull outboard once.

Sounds like a winner to me.

Did ski in a canal in FL being pulled by a 64 oldsmobile with my cousin driving....... until I fell at about 40 mph and almost became a Dawin Award winner

OUCH!

 

[grego]

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behind a 4 wheel drive pickup. we tied a sheet of plywood to truck and ran the river to river trail, after a rain storm, was fun, hard to hold onto beer. GEES! I was young!