Speed boat vs deckboat vs pontoon...

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IT'S SEEMS THE EVOLUTION OF BOATING swiftly keeps changing...
.in the early 70's when I got my first boat..1957 biesmeyer...65 hp merc outboard...the "I wanna go faster and have a bigger boat was the constant thought.....It was a little tough , but you could ski behind the little boat...there were many a fun times , go find a spot,set up day camp, unload everything out of the boat and spend the day sking.. tubing..hanging out with friends..

.I was living in paso robles then out by lake nacimento...the whole group was about sking and hanging out at the beach..when I moved back to vegas...mead was about the same... but, we always would head over to HP cove before sundown and watch the hot boat come down the hill from boulder city,,,, bad ass schiada's and lower dullys..it was a dream... some day.I'm gonna own some thing like that.

.I was in my early 20's.. married with a couple kids to feed... but we seemed to be able to make it to the lake every weekend..boating was boating back then...you used the boat to get to the beach...and to ski...some times we would camp on the beach....as time went on... it seemed that people spend a lot more time In the boat...boats got faster..gas tanks got bigger..the bigger jet boats started fading away at the just plain sucked up all the fuel you could carry.

.boats started having open bows...inline 4 cylinder boats were getting replaced with 454 's... now there a majority of boat that will run over 50 mph..and it evolved from there...we used to trailer to the area we were going boating....now you just go there on the water..put in at havasu... boat up to needles...

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So... with the evo of boats ..came the open bow, the deck boats, and now the high performance pontoon...true performance boaters heckle at open bow boats and pontoons..in fact... they seem to heckle at everything some times..LOL...",they ruined that boat when the cut that big hole in the bow" or " that's not a boat, it's a dock with a motor bolted to it"...

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so now... here we are 7/23/2017...people are now willing to give up the performance speed boat for the usability of the deck and pontoon boats. .they wanna haul more and more people in the same boat... give up how fast the boat is.... for how good it is at the beach...they are in and out of the boat all day long...drive them right up on the beach ...leave all their stuff in the boat...

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so whats next...what is the draw to pontoons? they're slow... they are like driving a motorhome...you can teach a 5 yr old how to drive it in a day..so lets make them go faster.. put two 350 hp verado's... now she hauls ass...??????ah.... ok...I bought a pontoon with a 300 hp motor...loved the usability... hated try'n to get gas in the wind, that and loading it on the trailer in the wind sucked... so , not for me....

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so here's my thought.... make a deck boat that is more like a pontoon....I think the draw to the pontoon is the walk out both ends... the big furniture, instead of the boat type seats...all the lounge areas and shade..kinda like being able to drive around while sitting under an easy up in a easy chair...

[2manymustangs]

This song came to mind 2FF it takes ALL types to make this crazy world go around...

[Ziggy]

so here's my thought.... make a deck boat that is more like a pontoon....I think the draw to the pontoon is the walk out both ends... the big furniture, instead of the boat type seats...all the lounge areas and shade..kinda like being able to drive around while sitting under an easy up in a easy chair...

All you need to do is buy a Hurricane Fundeck.
Pontoon on a fiberglass bottom.

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All you need to do is buy a Hurricane Fundeck.
Pontoon on a fiberglass bottom.

how you liking your new deck boat, I never got a chance to check it out..

[Ziggy]

how you liking your new deck boat, I never got a chance to check it out..

Getting much more comfortable with it as seat time increases. Not fast by comparison to other boats yet faster than our old boat and doesn't beat the crap out of us. Took the mufflers off and put turn down tips on instead. Nice muffled exhaust at wakeless speeds where we can talk to each other but the engine can now breath freely under power. Picked up at least 200rpm at top end.....

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[HB Vic]

Nope. Need two boats. Toon and go fast. Mix the two and you have a heap that isn't sure what it is


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