tealswatr,

You may want to visit you Ohio Regulations and read them. They do state that a PFD is required on "Mannually Propelled Watercraft" and they list canoes, kayaks, rubber rafts, etc. No, they do not list a "Floattube", but, it is Mannually Propelled and an agent may write you up. There is just too many "loop holes" which would allow them to write you up and if that happened, it would just ruin your day on the water.

Just providing this so that maybe you will not get written up and nothing more....