Sharing the Water With Pontoon Boaters

Sorry for bringing this back but I'm new here and thought this is a funny thread. I said in my newbie post that I always had ski boats but bought a pontoon last year for the first time. I liked it but missed the speed of a real boat. The one thing I did like doin though was when a big boat went by making a huge wake and I had people on the front of my pontoon. I would speed up and nose dive the front into the second wake creating a tidal wave for my passengers in the front. They would get so soaked! Funny times. Especially when I got the girl that tried so hard not to get wet all day
 
92coupe said:
Sorry for bringing this back but I'm new here and thought this is a funny thread. I said in my newbie post that I always had ski boats but bought a pontoon last year for the first time. I liked it but missed the speed of a real boat. The one thing I did like doin though was when a big boat went by making a huge wake and I had people on the front of my pontoon. I would speed up and nose dive the front into the second wake creating a tidal wave for my passengers in the front. They would get so soaked! Funny times. Especially when I got the girl that tried so hard not to get wet all day
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I have seen a pontoon boat flip doing that. It dove into a barge wake, went straight down into the water, popped up like a cork and landed on its topside. Suddenly the passengers are in the water with a boat on top of them and a cage (handrail) around them. that was an ugly sight. I have heard of at least two other instances where pontoon boats did someting similar, without flipping. One dumped all the passengers out in front of it and when the engine came back down, the boat preceded forward. Another ugly sight.
 
we have similiar issues with these canbotes here on the Chain , no regard to others , never paying attention , oh and with anchoring , ever notice all they have are mushrooms ? every time i go to the sandbar these canbotes drift all around , , constantly trying to reset there stupid little mushrooms
 
Last time out a momma canboater dumped a probably 6yr old off a tube...at idle...under a bridge that connected the full speed side of the lake to the idle side....this is the busiest spot on the lake ....and the kid spent 15 minutes in the water under the bridge before another young one on the boat dove in to help the little one back onto the tube so they could get underway.
by this time there were literally near 50 boats choked into this area waiting to change sides of the lake from both directions.
never seen a traffic jam in an idle zone till this ....
 
Blueone said:
....I had no idea I could drift up wind while still anchored...
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I just saw this thread, some funny stuff. However, something that you don't see on small lakes, the current would be a much bigger concern than the wind (especially on rivers). A strong current has enough strength to push you in to the wind. I know it wasn't the case with your situation, but I thought you'd like to know this anyway.
 
We have a lot of pontoons on the St. Croix river near Hudson Wisconsin. I did not notice too much bad boating by them other than they always looked like they had to many people on board. My boat is 22' and I don't like to have more than 4 people total on it.

Metabo
 
I fear the people that rent the house boats in our area. After a 1-1/2 hour training course they set off on a week or two trip up and down the river. They go right down the middle of the main channel and even think the barges are going to move for them. An in my area of the river it isn't wide enough to play chicken with a barge.
 
Lights at night - seems to be more of an issue with Can Boats. Later models have some pretty significant spotlights on them. The canboat drivers think that they are headlights - that they go flying along at 20-30 mph at night with those things blasting. Talk about ruining night vision.
 
FootballFan said:
Lights at night - seems to be more of an issue with Can Boats. Later models have some pretty significant spotlights on them. The canboat drivers think that they are headlights - that they go flying along at 20-30 mph at night with those things blasting. Talk about ruining night vision.
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and so do some of the boaters here!
 
FootballFan said:
Lights at night - seems to be more of an issue with Can Boats. Later models have some pretty significant spotlights on them. The canboat drivers think that they are headlights - that they go flying along at 20-30 mph at night with those things blasting. Talk about ruining night vision.
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My Number One boating pet peeve!
 
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