SportsStuffFrequent Flyer | 1-3 Rider Towable Tube for Boating

We have a lake house, a 50mph tri-pontoon boat with a 200hp motor, and a jet ski.We do A LOT OF TUBING, and own a rediculous number of tubes, skis, knee boards, etc.This is the biggest round tube we've found. We can ride 3 adults or 4 children on it, and LOVE, Love, love this tube.It has 8 total hand grips on front (most other tubes only have 6 grips). Having 8 grips is a BIG DEAL even if you're only towing 2 or 3 people, because it gives riders a variety of options for positioning their hands on grips.It has a strap in the middle that you can grab to pull yourself up out of the water onto the tube with. THIS IS A BIG DEAL unless you're 11 years old and strong. Dragging yourself up out of the water onto a tube gets harder and harder as the day wears on and you get tired (note: if you haven't fallen off, you aren't going fast enough... :-). We love the strap to pull yourself up.IMPORTANT NOTES:1) This is a BIG tube, and as such it has a tendency to "nosedive" or "snowplow" when you're launching too slowly or pulling too slowly (where the front of the tube plows down into the water). Your riders need to keep their weight toward the back when you're first launching, or if you're pulling very slowly.2) Because the tube snowplows more often than our 54" or 68" round tubes, if you pull it with a lightweight ski post or ski bar, YOU COULD EASILY BEND YOUR SKI POST or BAR. We pull it with a heavy two-point rope tow harness that connects to metal cleats on the ends of two of our metal pontoons. When this tube is fully loaded with people and it plows down into the water, I imagine it is pulling back with 1,000 pounds of force or more. This is one of the worse tubes I've seen for snowplowing (but we still love it).3) This tube benefits enormously from a SportsStuff 4K Booster Ball, because it keeps the rope up and helps to keep the tube from snowplowing. For that matter, EVERY TUBE would benefit from a SportsStuff Booster Ball. We have 2 of them, and love them. They keep the rope out of the water, which keeps water from flying up off the rope and into your eyes when you're flying across the lake at 30mph. Buy one.All in all, we love this tube. We pull it with a tow harness attached to the pontoon cleats, we use a Booster Ball to keep the rope up out of the water, our riders keep their weight back when we're launching slow or pulling slow, and we watch the tube and our riders and pull out of the throttle if it snowplows.And SportsStuff tubes and equipment are some of the best and most intelligently designed tubing gear we've seen. They ahve smart stuff like 8 hand grips and strap to pull yourself up with, which others should have but don't.This is the most fun tube we own. It's big, cumbersome to carry on land, and a lot of fun. If it popped tomorrow I'd order another one...

I’ve had this towable for five summers now, and it is STILL going strong! It’s provided a lot of summer fun for my kids and their friends. I have a 20 foot pontoon with a 90 hp motor and I do rinse it off with fresh water and let it air dry after each lake use. I’ve rated it a five on sturdiness and durability, and a four on easy to inflate only because the inside bladder sometimes gets twisted/bunched up. Not a huge issue. This was absolutely a good investment.

This is a great tube; however it does have some issues, the reason I would not give it 5 stars. It is a great size 3 teenagers can easily ride on it. We have it hooked with a bungee rope which made the tube so great and was really fun. It is well made and seems to be sturdy. We have had it out multiple times on a pontoon and jet boat. Its really fun on a pontoon, on my sea doo I have to be careful I do not drown the tube it will go under even if everyone is leaning back. My seadoo jet boat submerged it when one of the 2 rider fell off even. this never happens with my other tubes especially ones on a bungee tow rope. 2nd fault is the handle placement , they are really short and u must reach and use alot of elbow strength..3rd the so called knee and elbow built in protection, is a flop. everyone had elbow burn even with a pontoon boat towing it elbows where rubbed raw. elbow pads are a must with this tube. Just from the elbow rub i do not ride this tube anymore I ride on my other tube. 8 people walked away from the boat with raw elbows from this tube and some of us love it like my 20 year old son and than the others have a love hate feeling toward it like me, my husband and my other 2 daughters...It is super fun but the knee and elbow guards are more like sand paper making u regret getting on it afterward..Personally I will stick with my older tube and inflate this when more people want to ride my daughter bought her elbow guards so she can ride it. I am comparing it to my other tubes that are less expensive and only hold 2 riders , for the money this tube should not rip up elbows and knees like it does. This tube would be better if it didn't have elbow and knee guards. I would not purchase this tube again and am currently trying to figure out a way to cover the BS knee and elbow guard pads.

This is a GREAT tube. Quick background, I'm a 27 year old Florida man who lives a block from the boat launch. As such, I was using this tube pretty much every weekend for a year, and it took about 15 months of hard use and being left outside for the handles to finally start falling off. When I say hard use, I mean we were generally tubing hard enough that one person would be holding on for dear life being flung around on the outside and the inside person would have to be on their knees balancing the outside person's weight to keep the tube from flipping over.. Basically constantly pushing the tube and rider's to their limits. I was extremely happy with how long the tube lasted in those conditions, and was extremely pleased with the four handles on each side for maximum versatility and ease of moving around on it. The tube is small enough to be thrown all over the wake with ease, but large enough for a person to dive over the other person and switch sides so the better tuber could constantly have the inside position.Only downside is the term Frequent Flyer isn't quite as accurate as I would like. With one person, I could make a tight 27ish knot turn and ALMOST get a person to actually fly, but flying the "Frequent Flier" has turned out to be a near impossible endeavor. I just purchased another tube to replace last year's, hopefully this time I will learn how to fly it better.

This is the second one we bought! We are still using the first one, at least 5 years old. Only reason we bought a 2nd one was because the grandchildren like to double tub with the neighbors and we wanted the tubes to be the same size. We get 3 kids (ages 7-15) on a single tube and get all 6 out at one time. Never gets old watching the fun!

Best price around. This is a well made product. Our teenagers love it