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Kayak Pontoon

#1 Post by JLester273 » Wed Jul 12, 2017 8:41 am

While I know it isn't what you'd call a traditional pontoon. Effectively this was my first pontoon. This is a setup I cam up with for my dad and I to fish some remote lakes in Canada. It was an 8.5 mile paddle to the portage and we had limited time there. It is a 14 hour drive to the lake so this was our way of maximizing our time where we wanted to camp/fish. The 2.5 works perfect. The few people that saw us always looked at us funny or smiled and complemented us. Really is a cool setup for what we did with it.

I saw a picture in the rebuild section so I thought I would add it here as there is more traffic. And to see what you guys thought of my crazy Kayak Pontoon. LOL
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#2 Post by Retired OG » Wed Jul 12, 2017 8:50 am

Believe it or not, I've been toying with that idea for a long time....I still may put something similar together after I finish sticking my extra cash in my pontoon build. Something like what you have would be great for running shallow rivers carrying extra gear, dogs, etc.
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#3 Post by JLester273 » Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:33 am

It works really good actually. Sit on Tops would be better I think. But these worked out nicely. Some rougher water we got splashed a good put and took on some water but I bought half skirts for helping with that. SOT you'd get wet but not have to worry about taking on to much water.
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#4 Post by Retired OG » Thu Jul 13, 2017 5:45 am

How fast does it go with that little motor?
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#5 Post by JLester273 » Thu Jul 13, 2017 6:00 am

You know I don't remember. I think about 3.5 or so. We tried with a trolling motor but with no way to recharge the batteries it didn't work out.
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#6 Post by lakerunner » Mon Jul 17, 2017 9:30 am

I saw one a few weeks ago using 2 canoes. It was a sweet setup. They used it for drifting for Small Mouth on Illinois river
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#7 Post by rbtnt » Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:32 pm

Came across these guys about 5 years ago on a 150 mile river trip. They started with paddles only and halfway through their trip they stopped and bought the lumber and motor to finish.
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#8 Post by JLester273 » Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:31 am

Haha yeah mine went through the 2x4 strapped together with a trolling motor stage. Call it Rev 1. It was a success but only partially.

Where some of the coolest inventions probably started this way. LOL
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