On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:04:42 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:01:58 -0700, jps wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:38:30 -0400, HK wrote:


Ahhh...the right-wing ejaculates at play. At least you have the proper
"wide-stance" boat for someone of your persuasion, eh? Whatever amount
of oil I poured in from the oil jug was correct, since the dipstick
reads full, and I didn't overfill.

Is he a pontooner too? ****in' hilarious.

Bubbles on the bottom. That's not a boat, it's a raft.

Try catamaran. They ones I have seen plane nicely without monster
motors. You can pull water skiers and everything. Ideal cocktail
cruiser.,and for that, a pontoon boat can carry enough battery for
electric drive.

Casady

How much to these rafts cost?

On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:10:23 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:01:57 -0700, jps wrote:

On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:04:42 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:01:58 -0700, jps wrote:

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:38:30 -0400, HK wrote:


Ahhh...the right-wing ejaculates at play. At least you have the proper
"wide-stance" boat for someone of your persuasion, eh? Whatever amount
of oil I poured in from the oil jug was correct, since the dipstick
reads full, and I didn't overfill.

Is he a pontooner too? ****in' hilarious.

Bubbles on the bottom. That's not a boat, it's a raft.

Try catamaran. They ones I have seen plane nicely without monster
motors. You can pull water skiers and everything. Ideal cocktail
cruiser.,and for that, a pontoon boat can carry enough battery for
electric drive.

Casady

How much to these rafts cost?


Pontoon boats are for people who would rather be using a boat than
waxing it..

There is a company I am in touch with that will sell you a basic
pontoon boat with .1" thick aluminum hulls for about $5000

(no furniture)

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.

We have to use real boats in the NW, unless it's a lake. Even the
lakes here can have big water and they're pretty boring if you've
spent time on Puget Sound, San Juan and Gulf Islands and myriad
destinations between Seattle and Alaska.

I categorize boats as having a hull and gunwhales, maybe I'm wrong.

Rafts don't pass as boats in my book.

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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.

On Jun 7, 1:13*pm, HK wrote:
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.

Why did you do that? Wasn't the Hatteras good enough?