Hello From a Fiberglass Pontoon Boat Manufacturer

[John Christensen]

Hello everyone,Im John From Catamaran Coaches Inc. in bradenton Fl,we manufacturer fiberglass Pontoons and pontoon boats up to 70' and start at 16'Please give me some feed back on what you see that we build ! we have a web site catamarancoaches.com and a Face book page: Catamaran Coaches Inc. please take a look.Web site is working but under construction,more pics on Facebook.Thanks and looking forward to your commits. john

[lakerunner]

Man that is a nice ride. I love the removable fabric sides. Do you make any with a fold up Bimini?

Welcome to our forum by the way

[OldePharte]

Do you ship to Australia? There's a gal looking for a toon for a water taxi operation.

[dockholiday]

Nice looking boat. Like the hull design. Looks like they would provide a lot of lift. Best of Luck in your venture.
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[John Christensen]

Yes we build what ever your needs,from basic to what ever we can think up,and we ship them any where,Thanks for the commets ! We are working on a new mold for boat between 24' and 35' with a 32" wide hull at the chine ,it has a Step hull with a pad bottom ,it will be very fast,and with the hulls 36" tall,it will handle offshore very well !heres a few more pics

[The_Hellbilly]

I love the look!!! Can you give us any info on how they compare to "typical" pontoons as far as weight, performance, strength, and cost?

[John Christensen]

Weight wise we are a little heavier,but with our reg. bottom or speed bottom we are much faster,we had a 20' al pontoon traded in on one of our small 20' X 8' with a hard top and seating for 12,we took a 40 hp e-tec off the AL pontoon that ran 16 mph and put the motor on our pontoonboat and it ran 23 mph,
Our base boats run about the same as mid grade AL boat for price but most of our customers go a little crazy on options and most get large motors,our average boats run 40-60 mph,and we have built boats that will run well over 80 mph,heres pics of the 20'

[John Christensen]

Missed one Question,Our Pontoon boats are made to run offshore and we have people take our boats from the tampa area to Key West and from West Palm Beach to the bahamas,Im taking a trip from bradenton to Naples/Marco area on to Key West,then across to FT Jefferson in the tortugas,we have not had any failiers so far and hope never to have,Our boats are well over built,All our boats are custom one of a kind,we try never to build the same size,color or lay out the same,and we do 100 % hand lay up on our hulls,we DO NOT HAVE OR USE chop guns or wet out sys's, I also own Lightning Power Boats,A High performance Offshore Race and Pleasure Boats Company,and we use the same resine and glass in ALL our boats !

[badmoonrising]

Nice, would be perfect for fishing and crabbing in the Chesapeake.

[mike]

Very Cool, thanks for joining and sharing your boats! I am sure you will get lots of comments and idea's here, we have a great group of people here... How do your pontoons hold up to beaching in sand?

[John Christensen]

They are like any Fiberglass boat ,you will get wear on the gel coat unless we install a Keel saver,then you can pull up to the beach or sand bars as much as you like ,we tend to back up to the beach and walk off the dive platform.

[mike]

Looks like fun , I am sprised that they dont build steps like that into the sides of pontoons at the gates so you could get in and out of the water easy? Seems like a hinged cover that flipped out and created a step down in the water would be a perfect idea?