Just picked up my first pontoon
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:30 am
Hey! I'm Stuart and I thought I would introduce myself.
I just picked my first pontoon over the weekend, I grew up on the water and still have other water toys but I'm looking forward to the toon life. I've got plenty of questions so I'm quickly becoming familiar with the search feature.
I was looking at much older boats as this will be a second boat but a 2017 24' Suntracker xp3 (tritoon) fell into my lap and I couldn't pass it up, it is the "fishin' barge" version so I guess I will need to try my hand a fishing as well
So far I'm loving the Merc 150 4 stroke, what an improvement over the two stroke 125 on the boat it replaced! I'm thinking I might need to work on the setup because so far it is topping out at 32 MPH (gps) at 5300 rpm's but I had the bimini up with 3 people on board so I was pleased with that... for now. I'm sure I will want to try to get a little more out of it if I can.
Anyway, just thought I would stop in and say hi as I get use to this thing, it still feels like I'm driving a dock around but it has me smiling ear to ear while doing so.
-Stuart
I just picked my first pontoon over the weekend, I grew up on the water and still have other water toys but I'm looking forward to the toon life. I've got plenty of questions so I'm quickly becoming familiar with the search feature.
I was looking at much older boats as this will be a second boat but a 2017 24' Suntracker xp3 (tritoon) fell into my lap and I couldn't pass it up, it is the "fishin' barge" version so I guess I will need to try my hand a fishing as well
So far I'm loving the Merc 150 4 stroke, what an improvement over the two stroke 125 on the boat it replaced! I'm thinking I might need to work on the setup because so far it is topping out at 32 MPH (gps) at 5300 rpm's but I had the bimini up with 3 people on board so I was pleased with that... for now. I'm sure I will want to try to get a little more out of it if I can.
Anyway, just thought I would stop in and say hi as I get use to this thing, it still feels like I'm driving a dock around but it has me smiling ear to ear while doing so.
-Stuart