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SOTAR good. . .
Diameter? Recommend it for what? Play trips? One week for two? Mini beer barge? Give us data, mon. Dis de modern time. Big Science, all like dat.
SOTAR has a good rep with the bad-boy big water types. (Maybe Aire is okay, but the zippers make me nervous— like, what if your tube gets caught?)
I'm a Jack's Plastic Welding partisan, but the cat tubes from NRS, Maravia, and Hyside seem to work pretty well.
The key is the sort of load you'll mostly be taking, and the capacity (and waterline) of the tubes. If you sink a cat tube more than about 1/3 of the diameter, then it goes doggo. Hard to row and manuever. So (with a 14-footer) if you plan light loads and/or few days you can get by with a 19-22 inch diameter. More days/weight, better go to 24-inch. If that won't float high enough (look for load/draft tables like the ones on the Jack's website, <www.jpwinc.com>) then you need a longer tube, like a 16 footer.
There are quite a few good brands, but you'd better get the physics worked out first.
Chip
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