River Float Trip & Tubing Hats

River float trips are a summer ritual built on total laziness: pick a river, rent a tube and let the current do the work. The culture runs from the Ozarks, where Steelville, Missouri is billed as the state's float capital, to the Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas, a 2.5-mile stretch entirely inside city limits that stays 70 to 72 degrees year-round. Somerset, Wisconsin still calls itself the inner tubing capital of the world after LIFE Magazine's 1941 photo essay of hundreds of people on the Apple River, where tubers tie their tubes around a communal beer cooler for a float of about 3.5 hours. The gear has its own folklore. A cooler gets its own tube tied to someone in the group, and plenty of cameras, phones and sunglasses go downstream for good. FLOATS WELL WITH OTHERS already sells on river tubing tees, I'M ON A FLOAT and MY BONES CRAVE THE RIVER circulate on float slogan lists, and this collection puts them on embroidered hats beside original lines about the cooler tube, the sunburn and the lost sunglasses. Funny Kayaking covers the paddlers and Lake Life covers the lake; this shelf is for the people who drift. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the shuttle, or give one to the friend who always ties the cooler to the tube.