Towing tubes with our 2018 23RSB with a Mercury 300 Verado supercharged motor

[Chadhendrix]

We recently purchased a 2018 Bennington 23RSB tritoon. The boat has a Mercury 300 supercharged Verado motor. Looking for feedback on options on how to tow tubes behind our boat as that was one of our main reasonings for the larger motor/faster performance. The ski / tow pylon is not an option (we found that out the hard way after we used it and it bent while pulling a large tube on our lake). We then purchased a Turbo Swing Max as an option but our dealer is now saying that the configuration needed for this will not work on our boat due to bracket placement issues on the transom / clearance concerns. Any ideas? Please help!

 

[Vikingstaff]

First, congratulations on your amazing boat! I have a 2017 24SSBXP with a 200 Mercury Verado Pro. I LOVE that motor, and can only imagine having the 300HP version.

I would say the Turbo Swing is the way to go. They make different sizes of it for various size motors. Our turbo swing has been flawless in 9 years of pulling tubes. We mainly pull a 3 person Super Mable with young adults and older teens (our kids and their cousins). Turbo swing handles it with no problems. There should be a version that fits your boat. I know of others that have turbo swings with your size motor and larger. I am including pictures of ours for reference. I don’t remember the size as it’s been so long so we ordered our 2017 new. I don’t remember what size Turbo Swing our dealerships paired up for us for our 200 Verado Pro.

However, ours has easy clearance mounted on our Bennington transom/motor brackets.

 

[Scott1]

Hmm. for 10 years I used my ski pylon to pull tubes. 4 kids at a time, 2 adult men at a time and never bent the pylon. I would do sharp turns to get the waves going and also swing them fast. The most stress is when the tube nose dives under the water which happened many times. I wonder if you had bad luck or I was just lucky Edit: At that time I had the 2375R series with 250HP Verado flashed to 325HP.

 

[Chadhendrix]

First, congratulations on your amazing boat! I have a 2017 24SSBXP with a 200 Mercury Verado Pro. I LOVE that motor, and can only imagine having the 300HP version.

I would say the Turbo Swing is the way to go. They make different sizes of it for various size motors. Our turbo swing has been flawless in 9 years of pulling tubes. We mainly pull a 3 person Super Mable with young adults and older teens (our kids and their cousins). Turbo swing handles it with no problems. There should be a version that fits your boat. I know of others that have turbo swings with your size motor and larger. I am including pictures of ours for reference. I don’t remember the size as it’s been so long so we ordered our 2017 new. I don’t remember what size Turbo Swing our dealerships paired up for us for our 200 Verado Pro.

However, ours has easy clearance mounted on our Bennington transom/motor brackets.

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Thanks so much for the reply!! We will keep trying to figure this out. Glad to hear this worked for you. Perhaps we need a second opinion on the install.

 

[Chadhendrix]

Hmm. for 10 years I used my ski pylon to pull tubes. 4 kids at a time, 2 adult men at a time and never bent the pylon. I would do sharp turns to get the waves going and also swing them fast. The most stress is when the tube nose dives under the water which happened many times. I wonder if you had bad luck or I was just lucky Edit: At that time I had the 2375R series with 250HP Verado flashed to 325HP.

Yes we were totally floored when it happened. We had a super Mable tube with two adults and one teen. It bent when we were on a corner. The crazy thing is that it worked great earlier in the weekend. Bad luck is likely just it. Perhaps we can somehow reinforce the pylon and make it functional again? That would be risky….

 

[Pbakk]

I wonder if the pylon was not fully seated somehow and stressed a section not intended for the leverage. My pylon was built like a tank.

 

[mtudb24]

I never had a issue with towing from our pylon. So sorry this happened to you. Maybe cause at the time I was at 1/2 the HP you had (150hp pro xs). Wonder if the tube nose dived or did you have the rope go under?

Booster balls are game changers when towing tubes from low positions. They take all the stress off the tow points (whether pylon, turbo swing, etc). They keep the heavy rope out of the water and prevent the front of the tube from nose diving when you shoot them across the wake at high speed.