Tim wrote:
On Apr 4, 6:21 pm, "JimH" wrote:

"Tim" wrote in message

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jamesgangnc wrote:

Tim

In a real world test there would be no noticeable performance
advantages or disadvantages because of differences in the shapes of
pontoons on pontoon boats. Find the one that is the size you want,
with the features you want, at the price you want to pay and forget
about what shape it's pontoons are. If you care about performance you
need to stop looking at pontoon boats.

That's sort of what I was thinking. and by meaning "performance" I
wasn't talking about stuff like speed and handling, but rather
operational economy. I thought it was odd that there that many
varient's in tube designs, though.

Based on my understanding of the speed these things do, I would not really
worry about fuel (operational) economy based on different pontoon designs
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I know what you mean, Jim. I suppose what I'm asking is what tube
"design" would provide maximum efficiency. I should have said that
instead of "economy"


The biggest tub designed I noticed was that some are trying to get the
tubes to "plane" when they were not standard round shape. Of course they
were also putting big outboat on them as well.

They are all going to corner flat and drive somewhat like a truck. A few
manufactures are placing larger tubes in the center to try to get them
to lean into the turns more. But since top speed was not my goal I was
not interested in them.

One thing that the guy next to us on the lake said he really liked (he
sold a older pontoon and got a new one last year) is that the pontoons
most manufactures are using are larger now. 25 inch. I think he said his
older one had 22 inch logs. He likes the 25 inch ones alot better.

Capt Jack R..