Lovin it. Brings back old memories. My dad called tubing legalized child abuse. And we keep coming back for more! Put a loop or band around the tube and tie the tow rope to that. First tube I ever got towed on was a semi truck tube with an old fall protection belt wrapped around it and rope tied to that. Get your victim laying face down on tube and head forward to help with balance.
Lay him on his belly, screen/mesh bottom, and get the rope out of the water.. make a little pole mount on the back of the boat. 🤙🏻 super cool idea I’m deff gonna try this!
It never ever ceases to amaze me, all of the different kinds of RCing,. If that is a word. If not now it is! That you come up with .. Great rc channel!!!!👌
To make it more stable, being it's top heavy. Get a piece of thin wood, metal, even a screwdriver and put it under the tube. At the end of whatever you put under it, put an extra weight. Kinda like the long stabilizer on a sailboat under the hull. The weight would be at the end of that stabilizer. The longer the rod/stick/pole you use, the more stable it will be.
Flip the inner tube inside out so the stem is sticking out towards the boat and then tie the string around the stem and make the string a little bit longer and tape the bottom of the inner tube to make it flat so no water gets in the middle. Love the videos!!
If you look at an actual tubing tube. The tow point is about of just below the centerline of the tube with a smooth bottom. LOVE THE IDEA! Good execution of this.
You asked for more suggestions? I have an important one. The rear of the inner tube is rounded, which pulls water upward as the tube is drawn forward. Have you noticed that all fast boats have a straight up transom, while slower sailboat hulls are rounded at the rear? Pulling the water upward has the same effect as pulling the rear of the tube downward, into the water, causing tremendous resistance.. So, how do you fix that? You need to flatten the rear underside of the tube so that the water skims away from underneath instead of trying to curl upward. I have been enamored with the Thrasher ever since version 1. It's such a well engineered boat. I even contacted Scott to try to buy one of their jet drives. If you ever get tired of the Thrasher, Aaron, you know where to send it, dude ;-) Thanks for sharing your day with us.
Tie the rope up on the go pro mount or fab up a bracket to get the rope higher on the boat. The rope is low so it wants to drag the front of that tube down with it!
That is an awesome idea! What you need to do is take the boat side of the rope and secure it to the top hatch locking knob (the silver thumb screw) this will get the rope out of the water, so no drag, the rope will then be even with the top of the tube, and in the gopro it will look even more realistic as the thumb screw looks like a standard tow point on a ski boat.
Love the idea. Just need to workout the kinks. First off the last run is promising. I would tape an old CD to stiffen the bottom of tube, leave a gap at back to let any water in the tube out. Next is the balance of rider needs to be hunched over the tube so it will get on plane. The fluid dynamics force is holding tube to the water from the tubing curve. The last is to lengthen rope back out of the pumps Jetstream spray, this is one place that 1:1 to small scale work in the same way. Looking forward to MORE Videos on this tubing setup.
Attach the rope to the front outside of the tube. Then have your rider laying belly down in a superman like position. That should help out. I love all the videos. Keep up the great entertainment.
Mr Medic Sir! i am not a scale RC boating guru BUT i have done a TON of river running in inner tubes around my neck of the woods, the pacific north west washington state... its part of our annual spring summer activities... so i watched the whole thing because i always do... and you asked for ideas to make this set up ore stable... i would totally use those two zip ties to run the "tow rope" under ... run the rope under the ties, on the OUTSIDE or boatside of the tube. make a loop tie the line to itself in a triangle shape so your pulling from the front edges and not the back half where the guy is holding the line. thats causing you to nose dive the way its set now, and it wont be pulling from the top as you can push the loop higher or lower on the tube to adjust the fronts angle of contact with the wake of the boat and a bit longer line. i wish i could add a picture in this chat, but if you look up purpose made riding tubes youll see the pull point in the front of the tube... using your zip ties as two points going to one "the tow line" in a triangle is how they set up water ski ropes. you can then add a short linewrapped around the tube for the rider to hold the handle but its now cosmetic instead of the pull point. loving all the vids you post, and youtube gold is better and bigger every episode looking forward to loading wa... er kings!
Yo Medic! Awesome. You will need to use some rubber cement and attache a loop to the outside of the tube. That'll sort it, just like a real O-Brien water tube! Great Fun.
Wrap the tube in netting a net/mesh bag gives the pilot a place to set but also allows for attachment points for a harness. Attach to the tow rope at 3 to 4 spots around the front of the mesh should work.
Lol awesome work! The dude has to ride the tube with legs trailing mainly for weight / in the water and hands holding the front of the inner tube handles. The rope would get attached to the front of the tube itself. at least thats how we used to do it. It would also be cool to put a rudder on the tube so you can steer him in and out of the wake. Could step it up and make a wakeboarder with a steerable rudder but that might require a lot of r+d lol Or use the surfer guy rc
That's a very cool idea. I would try still knotting the string to the valve, but going under the tube rather than from the top. Hopefully this helps at speed and it doesn't want to dip and dive down any longer. Otherwise you can tape the string to the middle of the tube, it should not try to either lift or dive the front. Anyway, good luck, that's so cool.
@DeviousRC 66 i see your game, and I will raise you! If you can't encourage someone's creativity and enjoyment of how they want to use their rc's then you have no place on this channel! " leave and don't bother coming back " Aaron has inspired many rc enthusiasts and youtubers with videos just like this.
1. Place the rope further up in the boat. Use your GoPro mount like a wakeboard tower. That will help bring the tube up some and less down drag on the rope. 2. Let the rope out farther back from the boat and it will be in less prop washy water. 3. Tie directly to the tube and keep the knot at the waterline. 4. Vent your tape on the bottom so when the tube fills with water, the water can scupper out the back as you accelerate. I think that will alleviate all your issues.
I actually built ALL of that last night bro..and you are ON POINT! I have had so many people offer help for this "problem".. that I think the next video will be very good. I have yet to try these changes, but you guys will be the first to see it all done later today
@@TheRealRCSparks right arm! I'm stoked to see it! I just used my own boat, wake tower and large towable tube as reference. Keep up the good work on the channel. Love the content!
You should tie the rope to the gopro mount so that it is like one of those wake boats. That way it is pulling straight forwards instead of down wards. If you do that, then put the rope through the hole in the bottom of the tape cover. That way it is pulling upwards on the front of the tube. That would lessen the chance of it nose diving into the water at a higher speed
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Hahaha really cool Video and looks like a lot of fun my friend........thumbs up👍👍
Anyone remember Twiggy the Water skiing squirrel? They pulled him behind an RC Ski Nautique. I saw her once at the Cleveland Boat Show. It left an impression on me.
You should see how many RC boats it takes to pull you around the pond! Omg best idea ever, just saying, from fellow Canadian RC guy!!! Im gunna do it! Oh wait... i only have one rc boat and its under water... so you gotta do it brother!!!
Hey Aaron, if you tape your tube on top and bottom and add a zip tie to the front and hook your tow rope to it, you should be able to run the rapids. Just make sure your tube is water proof top and bottom She shall not sink
Hey fella from oz, Pmsfl, that was great , just a tip, tow rope needs to pull maybe from the silver lock on the top of the thrasher, not from underwater, maybe go under the tube after that, practice makes perfect my friend and having fun along the way is priceless!!!! Love your work mate , keep it up , been watching for years now and I always get a laugh...... all the very best to you and yours during our current “ problem “
Definitely equip a boat with a custom krazy joe wake board tower. That will change the angle so that it wont dive. Possibly put a one way valve on the bottom of the tube to drain water. It's not re inventing the tube it's just making it scale in every way possible
That’s actually kinda cool. One recommendation: It might work better if you wrap the string around the tube and have it go to the boat from the lower point of the tube if that makes sense. That is just how our full scale speed boat tube is designed that actually holds humans, and yes it almost always has the front end very high so it is normal. Still a very cool concept 👍
Yeah I love it that was outstanding !! I did see a video while back, a guy made a set of skis with a action figure , can't remember what kind of boat he used . But it was pretty cool
I’m actually in the process of making this happen with my new bright ski boat. I’ll be using a fisher price teething ring, they come in different sizes so we’ll see how it works. Will be using a long shoe string for the tow lead.
I believe my tube has a protective cover and at rear is a flap to let water be pulled out when moving forward. Also the rope hooks to a harness that has 2 anchor points . Maybe couple zip ties to a rope and a key chain ring as hooking spot?
You could always try a water drain setup, meaning have a small fkexible area on the back side of the inner tube that allows any collected water flow out of the pocket
With a jet drive, you have a good amount of thrust coming back which ends up actually pushing straight back as well as to the sides. If you can capture whatever you're towing (or even if you have another boat following) and the wake, it ends up sticking pretty well. Makes it easier on the following craft as well. So in this case you can see that when towing with a jet, its pretty much impossible to towing directly in the center. I was a craft operator on a couple 11 meter rhibs. Same concepts regardless of size🤙
Hey, use some tire glue and glue some grommets at the 11 and 1 o'clock positions to the tube itself. Most water ski tubes don't have the rider holding the rope, they are holding onto the tube...
Since its boating season over there in Canada i think alot of us would love to see a scale drive with the boats on trailers down to launch them, but as always gotta have KJ and the crew and make a awesome day of it with famous Medic events, something similar to loading kings maybe but boats? Just an idea, either way i love all your content so much encouragement from your channel i have RC fever!!!
Tape your pull string to the inner tube could you add your angle of lift bring it over there outside however low to the water you want it to change pitch of him jumping the waves
put the rope higher on the back of the boat and make it a "Y" at the tube and should take care of all the problems I did it with a tire in the winter behind a truck and I also did a 1/6 Guy on some skis I made it's always fun to come up with as my wife calls them "Harebrained ideas" LOL
If you moved the anchor point to under the gopro it would of worked no problem. Also you could tie the rope around the tube which would help him get on plane.
if u attach the rope to the front facing outer side of the inner tube it should work fine. that is how the real sized tubing tubes are designed. also, u can make an up side down horse shoe pole brace up 1 side and over then down the other side right about in the middle of the boat. then attach the rope to the middle of the upsidedown brace that should be kind of over the cockpit.
Awesome! The last run was going good. My suggestion is to make the tube a wooden hard bottom. Beat of luck at the damn. Oh and see if you can get him into a whip.😎👍
Just by watching your video, I was thinking of building a tripod mount on the rear of the hull for the tow rope. Maybe that will help eliminate some of the drag and keep the rope above water. Hope this idea helps. Can't wait to see more awesome videos. 👍
make a wrap like they do for the tube and have the rope centered in the tube side so when it pulls its pulling from the center like if a tire was on it . use a crown royal bag type thing
You can tape both top and bottom and have him lay on top tube and put the rope through the middle of the tube and have it pull from the front of the tube just cut a tiny hole in the tape
