On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:53:14 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 9:12:38 AM UTC-4, Tim wrote:
Another 28 foot pontoon. Much nicer than what I had for about the same money. 140 hp Mercury 2 stroke.

Looks like it might make a good lake camper...

I have a 25' Premier PTX Tri-toon with a 250 Yamaha I might let go for the right price.

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As a matter of curiosity, what is the shallowest water you can run in?

On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 1:53:15 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 9:12:38 AM UTC-4, Tim wrote:
Another 28 foot pontoon. Much nicer than what I had for about the same money. 140 hp Mercury 2 stroke.

Looks like it might make a good lake camper...

I have a 25' Premier PTX Tri-toon with a 250 Yamaha I might let go for the right price.

LOL! Yeah man "Everything" is for sale for the "right price". It'd be nice to have a craft like that, but for the rare seasonable boating I do (limited to time) I'm afraid that kind of a craft at my place would be a waste.

Nogonger where you live everything is a waste lol? Hey by the way, when's your jazz trio going to be in the Indy or st. louis area again?

'Nogonger!' Iphone strikes again Tom... (Sorry)

On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 5:13:14 PM UTC-4, Wayne. B wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:53:14 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 9:12:38 AM UTC-4, Tim wrote:
Another 28 foot pontoon. Much nicer than what I had for about the same money. 140 hp Mercury 2 stroke.

Looks like it might make a good lake camper...

I have a 25' Premier PTX Tri-toon with a 250 Yamaha I might let go for the right price.

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As a matter of curiosity, what is the shallowest water you can run in?

I've never measured it, but going slow without stirring up too much mud I'd think 3 feet or so. Up on plane (and yes, it does plane out), it probably drafts less than 1-1/2 to 2.

However, I get nervous when the depth finder drops below 10. Those stainless props aren't cheap.

Lower end and transom repairs arnt cheap either.
A three ft depth would be about right though one thing about this pontoon is that it comes with a couple large MinKota trollers I think for that reason . If it gets too shallow for the outboard you tilt it and use the trollers. Not really sure about that, or they might have used them for some quiet cruising time. I do know this pontoon was used on the Wabash with the sand bars...

On 3/27/2015 2:51 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:36:21 -0500, Boating All Out
wrote:

It's my understanding that Mr. Fretwell has left the group.

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Hopefully he'll be back if/when sanity is restored.


WTF happened?

On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:22:50 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Lower end and transom repairs arnt cheap either.
A three ft depth would be about right though one thing about this pontoon is that it comes with a couple large MinKota trollers I think for that reason . If it gets too shallow for the outboard you tilt it and use the trollers. Not really sure about that, or they might have used them for some quiet cruising time. I do know this pontoon was used on the Wabash with the sand bars...

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We were on a very cool shallow draft boat up in Alaska a few years
back. It was basically an overgrown Jon boat with a center console
and seating for about 12 people or so. Like all Jon boats it was
absolutely flat bottomed and the engine was a Yamaha outboard that had
a jet drive conversion on the lower unit. We were running in less
that a foot of water much of the time on the Chilkat River which is
very shallow with braided sandbars. We ran aground several times and
the young lady who was running the boat would just jump in with her
waders and push us off.

http://outboardjets.com/

http://www.tourdispatch.com/images/stories/Haines/eagle_preserve_wildlife_river_adventure/chilkat_river_aerial_with_bridge.jpg

http://www.tourdispatch.com/shore-excursions/haines-alaska/152-eagle-preserve-wildlife-river-adventure.html

On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:55:35 -0400, KC wrote:

On 3/27/2015 2:51 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:36:21 -0500, Boating All Out
wrote:

It's my understanding that Mr. Fretwell has left the group.

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Hopefully he'll be back if/when sanity is restored.


WTF happened?

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I think he just got fed up with some of the mindless back and forth
with all the usual suspects.

Yep