cruzin the lake

[Shopguy]

Last weekend we had a poker run which we sucked at, because even though I bought two hands and made the round trip from Cookson, Barnacle Bills, Six Shooter, Snake Creek, and then Burnt Cabin, I lost both hands. The good news was that I won two door prizes for both my cards. The bad news is we had to head home before six for a family get together and didn't get the prizes because you had to be present to win....
Anyway my point was that we were entry number 354, Lot's of boats out not counting all the others not in the poker run (the regulars and visitors). All kinds of neat looking boats, loud, fast, pretty, big little you name it. But probly the most interesting for me was the powertoon boats from Play Craft. I saw one that had two...yes TWO Yamaha V-Max 225's on the back. I wonder how fast it'll run. It was about 24-26 foot. The other one I heard coming around the corner and I thought it was another Baja or the like, with a loud motor and my jaw dropped when it appeared to be an ordinary older looking pontoon with a I/O V8 and pipes straight out the back....That was pretty cool.
What's the coolest pontoon (besides your own) that you've seen on your lake?

[BobG]

The good news was that I won two door prizes

So now you have a two-door toon?

[mrbigs3toon]

Did the poker last Sat. also, it was a lot of fun. Was lucky and stayed around for the prizes. My son and I each won door prizes. Bad news, the prizes we won where for the girls candles, room fresh, hair clips, etc. my son did win a coozie he was excited about that! He used it for his soda ( he is 9). I saw the playcraft with twin motors also, we also saw a pontoon with wakeboard tower it looked kinda of cool not sure how good a pontoon is to wake board behind?

[jafo9]

we also saw a pontoon with wakeboard tower it looked kinda of cool not sure how good a pontoon is to wake board behind?

functional but not much wake to work with.

[BobG]

we also saw a pontoon with wakeboard tower it looked kinda of cool not sure how good a pontoon is to wake board behind?

functional but not much wake to work with.

I was noticing that this weekend. Running 24 mph, I was hardly raising a wake. We had PWC's come up behind us...then just take off after a minute, because there just wasn't much wake to play with.

[Shopguy]

Yeah I saw the one with the tower too. Dark blue and white with double biminis. Nice

[ronb]

There is a guy on Pelican Lake, MN that has a Powertoon. I heard it has a big block in it, and he claims 73mph on the water when under full steam.

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Twice we have heard/seen him drop the hammer on that Powertoon.. my wife likes it a lot, she said our next pontoon will have an I/O v8 with marine headers... who am I to argue? When we were looking at our South Bay 922 we found this video from South Bay, it made my wife wonder if we should keep looking... (at about 1:15min they start opening them up)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDCpZ5mw ... re=related

But this has to be the biggest pontoon I have ever seen.. also on Pelican Lake there is a resort that has a tour pontoon. I have no specs on this bad boy but it is huge in person.

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A couple weeks ago my brother in law was at an auction and he said that somebody was selling a 16ft x 50 ft pontoon... now that would have been something to see. It must have looked like a floating parking lot, it probably had its own floating dock for other boats to pull up...

-ron

[OldePharte]

Ron, 73? Probabaly so. With Playcraft being made just up the road, we see quite a few. Single, double, and triple outboards can be seen along with the inboard-outboard drives. Those big blocks sound cool, but working on them is a real pain due to the cramped quarters.

If I ever win a lottery, I'd sure look hard at a Playcraft with twin outboards. Not just for the speed but docking would be a lot easier (that's my story and I'm sticking to it).

[GregF]

If I win the lottery I will buy a 900 hp Fountain like Papa Bush has and a big house at the beach to tie it up at.
I would keep a toon for the back bay

[bassn386]

A former neighbor had a Playcraft with a 496 HO I/O. He claimed it would do in the mid-70s and I have no reason to doubt him. He was bugging Playcraft to come up with a bigger engine, but they refused; at least for him. He couldn't handle the one he had, a neighbor had to drive it for him because he couldn't see very well.
There's a guy just down the lake with a Playcraft 2700 with a 300 Verado Pro. He told me he was getting mid-50s, but hadn't really opened it up. His brother has a 42' Fountain with god-only-knows what size twins. It has racing type props, each one has like six fins. I've seen it going up and down the lake with about a 100' rooster tail.
The guy with the most (and most expensive) toys wins!

[captainjack]

Well at the shoot out in loto I once saw a 26 playcraft extreme an it was suppose to have twin 500 merc i/o's in it I never seen them just what they said on radio! But I guess I am getting old playcraft fit an finish is poor in my eyes. Those loaded pontoon houseboat are the ones I think that are cool now!

[pond tuuunes]

on the lakes here, there is a 27' playcraft powertoon with a est 1350 hp twin supercharged big block I/O, he will be at the shoot out, runs an est 110 mph. mine is a 26' playcraft extreme, it has a 498 ci big block that dynod 627hp@5400 rpm, and 580 pound of torque. mine on gps hits 78 mph. I have a wakeboard tower, but mostly only pull tubes, JT

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[pontchartraintoon]

Used to see this fishing all the time in Ocean City, NJ. It was 45 feet. Built by Susquehanna Santee.

[GregF]

We have an operator running a 52 foot pontoon here along with several 38-40 footers. They have a contract with the 2 HOAs across the river to ferry their residents out to the beach and other little rides around.