3pointstar

I know that a good portion of the tri and pontoon makers have some pretty robust designs and manufacturing capabilities. However, living very close to the RV capital of the world were a number of these pontoons are made - there are a LOT of shoddy put it together with a hope an prayer type manufacturing operations- Not inexpensive - CHEAP. I have seen these "aircraft carriers" out on our lake with enormous horsepower go pretty well. And yes I'm very concerned that the surface area exposed to air at speed will flip them over. Just this past weekend I have seen a number of pontoons that were extremely overloaded with people/stuffs- so much in fact that a "little wake wave" crashed over the deck- we're not talking about an 18' toon were are talking about 25+ foot boats. I personally think these are accidents waiting to happen. Another pet peeve of mine is these aircraft carriers pulling tubers or skiers - grandpa doesn't realize the amount of real estate that these boats take and to have two tubes out the back trying to make all these crazy turns etc., is crazy. Yes, I know performance boats take up a lot of real estate also. But the turning capability of a performance boat and that of a toon in my opinion is the difference between night and day.

3pointstar

Jupiter Sunsation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFt1XIoysx4

Jupiter Sunsation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adGhE579AQ8

WMF

Not sure why you felt to post pics of some random pontoon flipping over? or what you are getting at?

Sydwayz

iTrader: (1)

I agree & would like to know as well. Jupiter Sunsation, what's the point of your two videos?

Smarty

That looks awesome, I wish that was here in NJ

Jupiter Sunsation

Wouldn't this be the next progression in high performance pontoons? Packing air and big HP pushes the threshold of trouble that much closer to the buyers.

Sydwayz

iTrader: (1)

The video of the pontoon on the dock/pilings actually shows it's built pretty well. It got there due to storm surge that floated it there, not an accident. When they pulled it off, it bounced (wow), held together perfectly, and floated right off.

The video of the double-decker also shows it's built pretty damn well; given all the forces involved in pulling the boat in opposite directions to flip it back over. I expected it to be in 3-10 pieces by the time they were done. I'm not saying it was designed well, but then again we have no idea why it flipped over. It may have had 27 people on the top deck, trying to turn into a restaurant dock at 30mph. When they went to flip it back over, it probably had another 2000 lbs of saturated water weight and it still floated.

388SLW

Have u tryed 21p rev 4's ??

turbom700

Nice to see other fast pontoons, been following it on FB.

How heavy is the boat? Seems one nice thing about these toons is they are light in size compared to glass boats.

It kind of fun blowing past the Baja guys in a toon