Tubes and Towables for Boat & Jet Ski

Tow tubes for the crew that hangs on

A tow tube is the cheapest fun a boat or a ski will ever pull. Every tube on this page runs a heavy-duty PVC bladder inside a nylon cover, foam handles with padded knuckle guards, a reinforced tow system and a quick-connect hook, so rider swaps take seconds and the tube cops the abuse instead of your crew. Most add a POV camera mount, because nobody believes the story without the footage. Nobody remembers the cruise. They remember the whip.

Pick the tube by your crew

• One rider — the Whip. 420D nylon over a PVC bladder, a self-bailing drain vent, a repair kit in the box, and a shape that whips wide the second the driver turns. Not a cruise.
• Two riders — Skimmer, Slingshot, Wing, Blast Off and the Wizzy Dizzy, which spins. Side by side, racing the wake, arguing about who let go first. See 2 person tow tubes.
• Three riders — Skimmer, Wing, Freeride and Blast Off. The family favourite: room to rotate the grommets through, a more stable ride, high-vis colours on the Skimmer 3, and pull-up straps to get back on. See 3 person tow tubes.
• Four riders — Wing, Freeride and Blast Off. The whole crew on one tube, fewer laps for the deckie, and the Freeride 4 adds arm and back rests for the ones who want to sit in it.

Behind the boat or behind the ski

Behind a boat, the big winged tubes sit flat and stable and the driver can run laps all arvo. Behind a ski, everything happens faster: the Whip and the two-person tubes plane up quick and react the instant you carve, which is the whole point of tubing off a sled. Either way, a tube rated for four riders is a promise the rope has to keep. Run the 1-4 Person Tube Rope, 60 ft with an 1882 kg breaking strain, and put the Towable Bungee Cord between rope and tube to take the snatch out of every whip. Wake and surf ropes are for riders, not tubes. Add the Hand Held Ski Tube Pump for beach launches and mid-arvo top-ups. It is all on tow ropes and tie downs.

The rules, straight

Everyone on the tube wears an Australian Standard AS 4758 approved life jacket. Level 50S is the tow-sports vest and the minimum. Level 50 is the same float in a high-vis colourway, for the water where your state calls for it. Kids wear a kids life jacket that actually fits, buckled on dry land, not an adult vest cinched down. In NSW and Queensland the towing vessel carries a driver and an observer at all times, the tube rides at least 7 metres behind, and you keep your distance from swimmers, dive flags and other craft. NSW caps you at three people towed at once, and towing stops at sunset. Read the NSW and Queensland tubing and towing rules and the Australian life jacket regulations guide before the season's first run, then check your own state.

The tube is rated for four. The rope, the observer and the vest are what let you use all four.