Hurricane makes a very good Pontoon boat. I have a Hurricane Deck Boat( not Pontoon) and we love it.
One other thing is don’t listen to people that say boating is not worth it. If you use your boat a lot then it is worth it. If you are the type that thinks you won’t use it much then it is not for you. I have owned 2 boats, with one awful experience and one great experience. With the awful experience is I had a used Mako that ended up having a lot of engine problems. Then my wife got pregnant and we were not using it. I sold it. Then some years later we bought a new Hurricane and have loved it.
That one always gets meTake her friends for a ride like this and you don't have to worry about them coming back.
Take her friends for a ride like this and you don't have to worry about them coming back.
Take her friends for a ride like this and you don't have to worry about them coming back.
Well that video explains a lot. So they were going 60-70 mph. No wonder there was such force.
He can spin that how he wants to. Running 60mph on the water is probably relative to exceeding 125 mph on your vehicle in the sense of what special equipment you need to accomplish it.
The guy that started Bonefish died running his boat at 100 mph. His friend claimed he hit a rogue wave. It was really windy that day and bay was heavily churned up. They didn't find his body for at least a couple of days. Luckily the two girls in the boat lived.
What are those 100mph cruise boats... $500K?
He was in a Spectre catamaran. You can get into a used one as cheap as 100k.
I’ve seen that probably hundreds of times, and while I realize that people got hurt, part of me still chuckles when I watch it (I’m a jerk, no shock there).
Me too, I think because they’re all trying to look so cool for the camera.
I do sugggest that you rent a pontoon boat first and see if it fits your needs. I made sure I rented the type of boat I was looking at buying, so i had an idea what I was getting. Do not buy a boat with out taking it out on the water first too.
I woukd not worry about how you look, and I sure as heck don’t look down on people with pontoon boats( I reserve that for paddle boarders lol). Find what works for you. I was looking into pontoon boats myself years ago but I found that many of them het too wet inside the boat. My feet were soaked and I did not like that. Now they have plenty of pontoon boats that this is not a problem.
We rented one of those last month on vacation. That was a nice boat. Took it from North Captiva up to Costa Caya, then Boca Grande, down to Captiva and then back to North Captiva.
Cayo Costa, or "The real Florida" as their T shirt and brochure says. I love that place. I take people down from st Pete a few times each year. Wish I could afford a cabin there. Among other things there is a really cool sandbar near the lagoon that shoots straight out into the Gulf. Sometimes you can walk out on hundreds of feet. At a calm low tide it's like walking on water.
Pontoon boats are way underrated. Most people don't need a boat that can handle big water because they aren't going in in that anyway.
I agree especially since the OP is looking to do
Just pulled the trigger on a Landau Island Breeze 232 yesterday....guy who is selling it had a stroke last year and is moving from New Smyrna up to South Carolina and the marina he was going to keep it at got destroyed from the storm so he had to dump it. 2 years old with 72 hours on it. Motor under warranty for 3 more years. 115 Suzuki, GPS with depth finder, blue tooth, vinyl floor, changing room, toilet, live well....really looking forward to lots of redneck cruising
