Why all the tubing posts?

[kyle f]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

I like listening to Music while I ride... 4 6X9s on the Tower just don't seem to be enough after reading this thread.

 

[skibrain]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

I'm moving along to other topics

 

[smclear]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

Don't boat where I am riding and you won't hear it. I wired my stereo so the tower speakers are not on all the time. Only when I want them to be... No rider, no tower speakers. I don't ride infront of houses or marinas... but then again if you don't like my music, go ban the open exhaust that people seem to just have to rev the crap out of. Just like if you don't liek my wake, get the damn 30' cruisers off the lake, I only wish I could toss out a wake that big.

Seriously though, I am very kind and share the water responsibly. I don't crank the stereo near the marinas, I don't ride there, and I don't ride where people are anchored or where others are riding. We find a place that has a pretty good straight stretch to ride, and we ride it until there are just too many boats around (monrings) or until the sun goes down (evenings).

Tubers feel the need to do figure 8s, carve all over the water... go in any and all directions, and pay no attention to the boats around them, and Most of them have plenty of tower speakers as well.

I think my next investment on my boat is going to be more tower speakers and another Amp. I finally see a way to annoy to dang tubers back.

Not sure how to respond to this.

Paragraph one makes you sound like a "self-absorbed", "inconsiderate", "me first", and a "I don't give a damn about anyone else" jerk.

Paragraph two seems to suggest you do try to be a considerate boater.

Paragraph three - you're venting.

Paragraph four - refer to comments on paragraph one. I really, really hope you're being sarcastic.

All I can say is that if you're out skiing (or whatever) and your music is blasting loud enough that it overpowers normal conversation at my house (happens semi-frequently on my lake), don't be surprised if I come out and seriously mess up your "water". Now, if you're out in the middle of nowhere, being vigilant and respectful of other people, I have no problem with you playing your music as loud as you want.

 

[kenmyfam]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

Agree, respect for others in your vicinity is the bottom line.

 

[convergent]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

Wake boards, Skiis, or Tubes, we are all in it together. Big boat, little boat, or jet ski, we are all in it together. Fighting and bickering amongst ourselves will accomplish nothing but more troubles on the water which at some point will result in more laws restricting what is allowed.

I agree with you on this. But talking about it in the thread can be informative to those on the different sides of the viewpoint here. I just got back into boating after many years off the water. Wakeboarding and wakeboats didn't exist when I boated before. But its a new thing and unfortunately I think that it does attract folks that really get off on being obnoxious. (just my humble opinion) As with anything, its the operator that's the problem, not the piece of equipment.

Today I took the day off and spent nearly the whole day on the lake with my kids. We started the morning out early fishing. The lake we went to had a no wake rule in effect until 11am, and they do that 3 days a week. It was gorgeous out, and we had a blast. We came in for lunch, and then went back out for some tubing around 1 and stayed until about 4:30. There were a few other boats out... some skiing, some rowers, a few kayaks, and some fishing. I tried my level best to stay way away from the other boats that were out there while tubing, and we played our meager stereo so it could be heard when we were stopped... not over the sound of our outboard. Several times I slowed down and straightened my line to get behind another boat that was passing and not wildly cut in front of them like I have seen people do. As we were pulling out, I saw a familiar wakeboard boat pulling in to the ramp to launch. It looked the same as the one that buzzed us while fishing a few days ago.

I started taking rowing lessons tonight and was back at the lake at 6pm for that. As I got out of the car in the parking lot to walk to the rack where the rowing shells are stored, I could hear some very loud music coming across the lake... the boat was about a mile away. It was that wakeboard boat. As I approached the other rowers, a couple of them said, "where is that music coming from??? it sounds like a carnival is in town or something... like a ride at a fair." I don't know if people with these boats realize how far the sound carries, but we could hear it a mile away... very loudly. As the evening went on, the sound carried louder and louder. I'm sure they were having a good time, but this really defines obnoxious to me. I can only imagine if there were 3 or 4 of these going at the same time trying to blast out each other.

I used to drag race when I was younger and didn't think anything of cranking my car and moving it around, working on it, whatever and whenever. One day I was out in the yard and heard a fellow racer that I knew back his car out of the garage and load it on the trailer. The thing was, he was several miles away and I could hear it. This shocked me and from that point forth I was very careful when and where I cranked the engine to be aware of the bother it was for our neighbors.

Those tower speakers might be a blast for the people in tow, but they really, really carry the sound for a LONG way. Ironically tonight the guy doing this was pulling tubers with the wakeboard boat. I don't mean to pick on kyle_f... don't know you and for all we know you could be the most respectful boater on the planet. But you mentioned that you try to do your boating early in the day and late in the evening. Just remember that sound carries much further at those times than it does in the middle of the day. Just saying. You might want to have someone else take your boat out with the sound cranked and sit on the shore at those times and see how far away its still loud.

 

[kyle f]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

All I can say is that if you're out skiing (or whatever) and your music is blasting loud enough that it overpowers normal conversation at my house (happens semi-frequently on my lake), don't be surprised if I come out and seriously mess up your "water".

Then I hope you like Avenge Sevenfold, cause after you come out and just start messing up the water... well... problem is then my crew would know where you live and, well we would make sure to pass there every time we ride. You couldn't just be nice and ask someone to trun it down a bit could you?

However, the second you get behind my boat with a rider, I am calling your numbers in as well and you can whine to the Wild Life officer about the stereo being loud all you want when he comes to pay you a visit.

 

[kyle f]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

Those tower speakers might be a blast for the people in tow, but they really, really carry the sound for a LONG way. Ironically tonight the guy doing this was pulling tubers with the wakeboard boat. I don't mean to pick on kyle_f... don't know you and for all we know you could be the most respectful boater on the planet. But you mentioned that you try to do your boating early in the day and late in the evening. Just remember that sound carries much further at those times than it does in the middle of the day. Just saying. You might want to have someone else take your boat out with the sound cranked and sit on the shore at those times and see how far away its still loud.

It doesn't carry very far on our lake... wooded surrounds and many many curves and coves. We don't get down to the more "open" areas. We don't ride near houses or marinas... got friends with house boats in marinas and houses on the lake... and I understand the wake and noise issues.

However, I say this in all seriousness. I will be adding on to the stereo. Not to particularly annoy people, but since it does maybe a louder stereo will help "encourage" people to use a different spot on the water than the one I happen on the be using that day.

 

[imported_John o]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

Why all the tubing posts? We tubers have no where else to post. This place seems to be the best fit.



kyle_f, I sure hope you're not as big a jerk in real life (on the water) as you are making yourself out to be here.

You see, people who behave as you are seeming to imply you do (intentionally cranking the sound to annoy people) are the reason that other people agitate for noise control laws outlawing big stereos on the water. If you don't respect your own ears enough to play it sensibly than please respect ours and try to be considerate when other boats are on the water or you're within a mile and a half or so of houses, marinas etc.

Even with curves and woods the sound still carries. My lake has limestone bluffs and such and we get echos off of the shore. Sound travels over water far easier than you'd ever expect.

 

[smclear]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

However, I say this in all seriousness. I will be adding on to the stereo. Not to particularly annoy people, but since it does maybe a louder stereo will help "encourage" people to use a different spot on the water than the one I happen on the be using that day.

So, once you're on the water, the area is yours and no one else is entitled to be there????? Maybe my excessive boating will "encourage" you to go elsewhere.

 

[convergent]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

It (sound) doesn't carry very far on our lake...

This reminds me of the scene in one of my favorite movies, My Cousin Vinny, when he's questioning the guy about cooking his grits who said he was a fast cook. Vinny replied with, "Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than in any other place on the face of the earth? Or perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove! Where they magic grits?

Ever lake I've ever been at, especially early and late in the day, you can hear a pin drop from one end of the lake to the other. Different physics on your lake I guess.

 

[kyle f]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

This reminds me of the scene in one of my favorite movies, My Cousin Vinny, when he's questioning the guy about cooking his grits who said he was a fast cook. Vinny replied with, "Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than in any other place on the face of the earth? Or perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove! Where they magic grits?

Ever lake I've ever been at, especially early and late in the day, you can hear a pin drop from one end of the lake to the other. Different physics on your lake I guess.

I know it is... on the section of the lake we are on... its kind of hard to think of it as a lake. Its very narrow and a lot of curves and no shore line at all, all very high hills and tree covered.

There are spots on the lake that are open, where I can imagie the sound would travel very far, but from spending many a night on a house boat and hear boat motors and stereos go by at all hours, you only hear them breifly. Pretty much after a minute or two they have turned a few corners and they are gone.

 

[bently]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

Why does everyone want pick apart everybody else's post? Like it has been stated previously, there's needs to be a place for tubing posts or combine them all.

And one last thing to those that do say they hate tubers, you and everyone else has rode a tube and loved it.................

 

[LadyFish]

Re: Why all the tubing posts?

Seriously? Guys? C'mon.