Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

Nice reason!

When I owned my 70 foot passenger boat, I had some friends that rented wave runners. In order to increase thier rentals, they started using a 13 foot whaler for a chase boat instead of one of the wave runners. the first day on the whaler, the kid running it drive it like the wave runner. If you know the littel whalers, they have the nice varnished wood bench seat. Well he flew right out of the boat with the boat at 3/4 throttle. We had to go corral it with my big boat to get it back.

That's why I tie myself to the toon and the lanyard,, when out by myself, I have enough line where I can walk the whole toon, not while running, but if I fall over it's going to pull the lanyard too, just in case.

But remember a toon in a five mile an hour wind will blow away from you quicker than you can swim, so even if we are all out swimming around the toon, I leave someone who can drive the toon on board or I'm tied to it.

If you don't believe how fast a toon can get in a little wind, go up wind, shut her down and watch your GPS, I have seen 4 MPH on days with little wind drift fishing, Pontoon sides make great sails and really catch the wind.

yep i have positioned my toon broad side to the wind and fished coves that way.........doc