where do you hook your ropes to?

DVskier wrote: I think a Bayliner deck boat would be more appropriate.

  

Mr Heath

You ask a perfectly logical question and all you get is a bunch of grief, but don't worry there's a solution 

if you were to search thru the annals of CCF history, you might come up with a quote like what's below from an old thread about lifting rings.

I'd have to call it "the Pete endorsed way to use the lifting ring to pull tubers"

What more needs to be said? 

Well, maybe you should put a shock tube over the rope(s) between the pylon and the round thing at the back of the boat for some extra safety for those back seat passengers

8122pbrainard wrote: Tom, You must have totally missed Alan's (magicman) method and fantastic solution to this problem of having people in the rear seat while pullig tubers or skiers. Put the rope through the rear lifting ring but attach it to the pylon. Now all of the pull to the rear will be to the pylon with some side to side pull on the lifting ring.

If the lettering on the side of the boat said Super Air Nautique, he'd have that tow point. 

Pictures in 2000 brochure in link 
 

C_Heath:  as you have probably surmised, there is not a lot of love on CCF for tubes and towables.  I "get that" as I'm a water skier.  Tubes frequently tear-up the water and ruin the waterskiing for those who want to ski.  As a general rule, my boat is allergic to tubes.  However, I do make exceptions...particularly when one of my little grand-daughters says: "Papa...tube?"  Yes, they will all be taught to waterski, but for now they love the tube.  For those rare instances, my open-bow Ski Nautique will pull a tube.

The rear lifting ring on my SN has the same decal as shown above.  As such, any towing activity (ski, tube, etc.) will not exceed the force exerted to what I deem to be equivalent to 2 skiers.  As for pulling a tube from the ski pylon, my personal opinion is "don't do it".  I witnessed a bent pylon on a direct-drive boat that was the result of an over-zealous tube experience.

If I had a "gun-to-the-head" desire to pull a fully-loaded tube, I may consider attaching a dedicated tow-point to the transom and anchoring that tow-point with a good-sized metal backing plate that has been fiber-glassed to the inside of the transom.

JQ

100% correct. Thanks 

Our lake used to be a fantastic ski lake, now I have to wait till I can get a shot between the monster boat wakes. You can't even boat at ski speeds because those monster wakes would beat the crew senseless hitting those wakes at ski speed.   Those are the realities but we all co habitate and they have a right to play just like we do.

When I was young it was the fishermen hating us water skiers because we disturbed their quiet fish time.  I have had Whiskey bottles thrown at me as I passed fishing boats while skiing.   Now it is small wakes vs large wakes.

Should we get into the large stereo's vs the small stereos.   Man I love being on the beach with the grandchildren when some bozo in his 23' wakeboard boat with about 6 speakers on the tower starts blasting his RAP songs screaming about Bitc*s and all the things he wants them doing with every description including the F word time after time.   That boat is usually about a 1/4 mile away and it is so loud on our beach spot that we can't hear anything other than that.  Great example for a family outing.   

I know there is no law against it but that is abusing every other person out there when they do that and how do you say that is OK to grandchildren.  That behavior is just plain wrong.

OK, I ranted, on this forum you have premium quality advice, much of it from people who have done the work and share every detail for you to do the same work right the first time.  Invaluable information.   On This forum, unlike many other forums out there, RESPECT keeps away name calling which never solves a problem.   There is a lot of teasing,  99% of it is very good natured or meant to be.  

Yes, I have tubed, Surfed, Barefooted, Wake boarded enough so my kids did not call me a sissy but I never liked it, we built 3, 5 and 7 man pyramids on the local river.  I admit I was never good enough to one foot barefoot or flip around to back barefoot just an average Joe but I still love to ski and that is getting very hard to find smooth water for.   So that is where the snarky words come from about tubing, surfing and wake boarding which dominate the new generation.  Friendly insults just tell you we are old generation but still like to play.

My 1978 Ski Nautique had the rear lifting eye that was connected to the floor with a threaded rod.  That held up to some very hard tubing and even some hard skiing done from the rear because the boat was loaded with people.  It worked but I had small spider stress cracks all around that lifting eye.  If I had a do over I think I would go under the eye and reinforce it to spread out the load.  Maybe fiberglass in a strong plate to beef it up.  I pulled a large truck tube a lot, never more than 2 people on it and it cracked my boats gel.  Never thought to move the load up to the center mount with the rope running though the lifting eye.  That might have worked.  I was 26 years old back then so having fun was more important than possibly doing damage.

Keep it clean, get your boat fixed and enjoy life.