04-16-2008, 04:20 PM
The tracking qualities of a pontoon boat, depends on the amount of length of each pontoon you have in the water.
Example: two 8 foot boats, one with pontoon tips that reach up out of the water has a shorter surface touching the water, compared with a boat with flat configuration on the pontoons where the pontoon tips are in the water. If I haven't made this clear, think of putting a 8 foot 2X4 in water and turning it end to end, and then one of 2 foot length, and doing the same.
It's more the length of pontoon touching the water than the actual length of the pontoon itself. The longer will track better, and be less manurerable (SP).
(observation: I think that the spell check on the forum is a worse speller than I am.)
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Example: two 8 foot boats, one with pontoon tips that reach up out of the water has a shorter surface touching the water, compared with a boat with flat configuration on the pontoons where the pontoon tips are in the water. If I haven't made this clear, think of putting a 8 foot 2X4 in water and turning it end to end, and then one of 2 foot length, and doing the same.
It's more the length of pontoon touching the water than the actual length of the pontoon itself. The longer will track better, and be less manurerable (SP).
(observation: I think that the spell check on the forum is a worse speller than I am.)
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