I'm gonna take the pontoon boat out...
I have this tube to pull behind the boat that I call the "flying tube" because that what it used to be in the early and later 2000's. All it was was like a 8' diameter inflatable disk, about 10" thick, with a cover and handles, as towable tubes have, and it had handles at the back of the tube "to aid in climbing on."
Well, the thing is, it had a spot for persons' knees mad of that wetsuit material, and handles at the back so that if you sere at the center of the tube, pulling back on the handles, you could catch flight from the water at pretty low speeds behind pulled behind a boat.
I'd be on the tube hanging on, pulling on the handles, and my bros driving the boat would get up to maybe 20 or 25mph and the front of the tube would lift up, then when the rear of the tube also lifts up, it gets very quiet because I'm no longer on the water.
Sometimes it would end badly, depending on the wind direction and speed. Sometimes I'd get 5 or more feet in the air, everything going good, then the tube would just go to the side, turn upside down and slam my ass into the water. It was so fun.
Well I just got a new tube, a year or so ago. Last time I had the flying tube was in like 2008 but it got punctured and I threw it out, not knowing it would soon become illegal for the manufacturer to make it, at least not in the same form. The handles at the back are gone.
I today I finally picked up some needles and nylon thread, and am going to sew some handles back where they should be tomorrow. And by handles. I mean just a couple short strips of some thick tie-down strap.
I'm excited to ride a flying tube again because these things are very hard to find now thanks to lawsuits and government shit, I assume. It's not even as dangerous at those infamous "Manta Ray" tubes.
https://youtube.com/shorts/mCxfcOmUvjk?si=hU8w8CnLNfF_M4M9Mine is just a disk with handles at the back. But I guess it fell under the same umbrella that the Manta Ray did.
So yeah, I'm excited for that tomorrow. Fuckin government ruining my fun.
And don't get my started about knee-boarding in the water behind a golf cart driving down the beach along the water. Got pulled over by asshole cops for that one back in the day....
But what are YOU doing this weekend?
