Post by SuperAdmin on Dec 28, 2011 8:37:17 GMT -5
We have been boating all our lifes mostly speed ski boats fishing
and after a afternoon with a bunch of friends on their pontoon boat wife decides we need a pontoon boat
So i started looking at these things and WOW these cost a lot more than i expected at least for the kind i could see myself in
So as it is in most things in life reality sinks in
We had to come up with a compromise
We decided to try a little fixer upper for 1500.00 bucks
it had good pontoons and a motor that run what else do you need ?
we could throw some plastic lawn furniture on it and see if we liked the whole pontoon boat thing
Well as suspected the pontoon go more use than we ever had imagined and could now justify spending some money on some up grades so here we go
The original condition the boat looked like this
The rebuild kind of went like this
Then of course we had to refurnish the whole thing
this is like picking out furniture for the house there are just a zillion variety's of shapes and sizes colors
we decided to go with the wood free construction and fabrick with out a lot of texture that was easy to clean and take care of because the plan was to leave the boat in the water and just cover it when not in use
And there you have it
decided to sell the old two stoke mercury and istall a new 15hp Honda
for a couple of reasons
quiet no stink and smoke from the two stroke
and we needed some thing that made way more electricity to run the stereo docking lite and fish finders
and one more thing because it will be tied to the dock with no shore power near by we decided to add a solar charging system
so the kids can run the radio while down by the pier and the batter is always up and charged when we want to go out for a ride
fun for the whole family!