Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

It has been a long month and a half since I bought my new boat and I can't wait to get her in the water today. Never owned a pontoon or even driven one. Always had Open Bow runabouts. Will try to post pictures later.

Nice! I'm stealing my boat from the dealer today to take it to the lake. It's been 2 weeks and they're still not done building my bimini tops (due to having the wrong parts )

JNorris79 wrote:It has been a long month and a half since I bought my new boat and I can't wait to get her in the water today. Never owned a pontoon or even driven one. Always had Open Bow runabouts. Will try to post pictures later.

Congrats. Looking forward to seeing your pictures! Your model was one of the ones on our shopping list.

haganjeff wrote:

JNorris79 wrote:It has been a long month and a half since I bought my new boat and I can't wait to get her in the water today. Never owned a pontoon or even driven one. Always had Open Bow runabouts. Will try to post pictures later.

Congrats. Looking forward to seeing your pictures! Your model was one of the ones on our shopping list.

Sorry Jeff. We had too much fun yesterday and I hardly thought about pictures. Ended up at Lake Perris and beaching on the Island. I only managed to take this shot before losing my phone in the interest of having some drinks.
I definitely plan on getting better pictures once the boat is home. I'm leaving it at the dealer for them to finish up. So I'm boatless again for a while.

Boat performed flawlessly. As much as I liked it, my wife and kids loved it more. It is going to take some getting used to for me going slow all the time, but man the space was amazing and so smooth. I purposely went over another boat's wake and I barely felt it. I would have had to tell everyone to hold on if I had hit that wake in my runabout. I also can't believe how quiet it is. Think this is going to be a great Family boat. Guess it was time to leave my speed boat back with my bachelor days.

Only problem I had was getting the thing on the trailer. I was fighting a stiff cross wind and every time I got the from toons on the bunks my back would blow over. I ended up getting the front on and then getting in the water myself and pulled the back in place. Might have to look at investing in some guides of some sort. I was getting pretty frustrated, and would have been embarrassed had the ramp been busy. I have been boating since I was a kid and never had that kind of problem loading a boat.

Here are a few pictures. Forgot to get any of the outside of the boat on the water.

Those smiles are truly priceless!

Get the guide poles as they will help tremendously. You will also get used to trailer depth - being too deep or too shallow will effect the ass swing. You will also get used to coming in a bit hot (not really power loading as that is frowned upon) in cross winds. When getting close to the bunks, you may need to give it a quick shot of reverse to slow down. Once you get on the bunks then keep the power to it (not too much as you don't want to punch through your tow vehicle) and she will settle in nicely.

You will get the feel of it after a few outings.

Great pics! Looks like a fun time was had by everyone.

Very nice! Looks like a neat layout. Enjoy, I have never regretted changing my mind from a bowrider to a pontoon. Nothing beats it!