04-30-2004, 12:30 PM
[cool][blue][size 1]Hey Bro, thanks for sharing. Maybe we can get this guy to join BFT...and become TubDud.[/size][/blue]
[#0000ff][size 1]That looks pretty "high tech" to me. We can't see the stern on his craft. Do you suppose he might have a big outboard hooked up? Otherwise, I am thinking that he would be "toast" in a brisk breeze. The high profile on that thing would really catch the wind.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Seriously, that is how a lot of float tubers got started, by rigging up something on a plain old inner tube. That's how I did. Only I didn't have one of those big tubes. I just sat in the middle of an overinflated car tire tube at first. Then, I got a truck tire tube and played around with different seat arrangements.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Back in the 50's, some good old boys in Oklahoma made the first commercial covers for inner tubes. That was the Fishmaster company. They are still around, but don't get much of the market these days. All of the new designs and materials available have just about made the old "round boat" obsolete.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Still, it's great to see somebody "get back to basics". Thanks again, daymere, for posting that little gem on our humble board.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]That looks pretty "high tech" to me. We can't see the stern on his craft. Do you suppose he might have a big outboard hooked up? Otherwise, I am thinking that he would be "toast" in a brisk breeze. The high profile on that thing would really catch the wind.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Seriously, that is how a lot of float tubers got started, by rigging up something on a plain old inner tube. That's how I did. Only I didn't have one of those big tubes. I just sat in the middle of an overinflated car tire tube at first. Then, I got a truck tire tube and played around with different seat arrangements.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Back in the 50's, some good old boys in Oklahoma made the first commercial covers for inner tubes. That was the Fishmaster company. They are still around, but don't get much of the market these days. All of the new designs and materials available have just about made the old "round boat" obsolete.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Still, it's great to see somebody "get back to basics". Thanks again, daymere, for posting that little gem on our humble board.[/size][/#0000ff]
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