ponton boat

DownSouthRider · Faceplant Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 12

hey my next door neighbor just gave me his old ponton boat for free cause he was movin its 16ft with a 15hp. right now the 15hp just wont get us out of the water enough to go wakeskating. does anyone know how much power i prob need ta get me and my friends out the water to wakeskate, me and all my friends are juniors and we all weight about 150.

Wakesk8er54 · Faceplant Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 23 City: Mandeville

A whole lot

RUSSIAN · Posted: Sep 12, 2004 10:57 pm Post subject:

I think 40hp is about the lowest you could go. I went behind a 30 or 35 last winter and it was very difficult to get up, and it would not get up to speed. I think 50hp would be good

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Sep 13, 2004 12:21 am Post subject:

errr.. my 13 foot whaler has a 60, and it has trouble getting people up (juniors name wieght) up some times, and it gets tired quickly and over heats, id say go with at least 90 maube 70 at lowest. just my 2 cents.

seven11dmd · Posted: Sep 13, 2004 12:48 am Post subject:

i got a 40hp on my pontoon, it tops out at just under 20 though....thats what kinda sucks

freerider4 · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2462

what h.p. did or does lovett have on his pontoon boat.

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

i have a small aluminum fishing boat with a 35 hp. i think it could do it.... i'll probably try it just for the hell of it some day.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

My boat has a 70 hp motor. And the pontoon isn't daniel's, it's derek's. I dont' know what the HP is, but they have to "floor it" for the perfect speed. So seven11dmd, your boat might actually work.

BillyOLDS · Posted: Sep 13, 2004 11:45 am Post subject:

a whaler is way heavier than a pontoon so dont listen to that but a fifty -sixty horse would work fine, but u should saave for a different boat and make that toon into the biggest set-up of rails ever!

freerider4 · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2462

headhuntermx4 i've always wanted to do that with a pontoon boat like it make it one huge floating dock and then rails on the sides to go on and then maybe a kicker at the end of the boat.

The Pavement 3.6 · Backside 180 Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 572 City: Eustis

i go behind a 22 with a 50 sometimes only goes 18 so you might want to put a 50 on that and it should run in the 20s

BillyOLDS · Posted: Sep 13, 2004 2:51 pm Post subject:

freerider4, the dry storage place in winter haven has two logs that im trying to get them to sell me and the dock master wants to but the owner wants to build a dock on it but im looking for one to put a kicker on one side and a flat up rail and a box on the other and u could film from it so easily!

seven11dmd · Posted: Sep 13, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject:

how would u slide the pontoon...it has seats and stuff...

i once road straigt at my pontoon and then jumped off my board and in the door on the side, i almost ran out the other side trying to slow from 20 mph though, haha, and my board justslammed into the pontoon