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wrote:
On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:51:28 -0700, jps wrote:

There isn't a single body of water that I spend time on that'd be
safe to navigate on a pontoon "boat." I'd trust my 11' Whaler before
I'd cross open water on a pontoon.

That is simply because you have never actually been on one in rough
water I suppose. Unless your Whaler is over 18-20', I will go anywhere
you go (and there are a lot of places in shallow water I will go and
you can't). I can run at idle speed in about 12" of water without
chewing up the grass.
The thing we have in common is both are virtually unsinkable., I have
the advantage that when mine is capsized I still have a place to
stand.

I rented a 22' pontoon boat once to cruise on the St. Johns River in
Jax. Rode out towards the jetties. Got a bit choppy on the way back, and
the pontoon boat was a really miserable ride. Wind was blowing it
around, too.