Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

We just committed to buy a 15ft Gill Getter electric drive pontoon boat. We are on a small 35 acre lake in Omaha, Nebraska. All we have is a floating dock on 55 gal drums so will be pulling it up on the beach when not in use. In the winter we will have to pull it up far enough so that it will stay out of the water come spring thaw. It weighs about 1,000 pounds so could use some ideas as to how we are going to be able to pull it up 20 or 24 feet into the yard and also how we are going to get it back down to the water. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. We're new to this as this is our first pontoon.

cut some PVC pipe into rollers and roll it up

Yep. if you want to get fancy, they make some rollers , like a trailer without wheels

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When I lived on the Lake I used about six cedar fence posts and a lawn tractor and a couple guys on the back to help push. Pull it up on the Cedar logs. Keep two ahead when you clear the back two they become the front two. It was easier in the Spring to put it back in the lake because the Lake level had rose to almost the back of the pontoon. Two teenagers and myself pushing it on the rollers/ Cedar fence posts and it was floating. I only pulled the pontoon up about 15-20ft from the waters edge. Lakes always recede in the summer from evaporation and rise from snow melt and spring rains. The pontoon rested all winter on four fence posts. This worked like a charm.

We have a lot of boaters us 3 or 4" steel pipe made as rails on a frame from below water to the boat sheds. They make a trailer from steel and use car wheels on rails. Some kind of winch hand or electric pulls it up the bank.

plastic corregated drainage tubing like 10" wide under the tubes should work

use a rope........ awwwee i was just being mean. they got good ideas up above me.