Needs more Pontoon on his Pontoon Boat
On one of our recent golf cart rides around the marina, one of the larger custom homes along the northern wall had a very nice, color-coordinated pontoon boat powered by twin 425hp Yamaha outboards. The weight of the outboards had the boat a bit low in the stern. The owner can trim out the ride once he gets going, but until then everything leans a bit to aft. I looked up the base retail price on each outboard and they start around $45k without all the toys for trimming and raising. The combined 850hp dwarfs the 56hp Yanmar diesel in our sailboat, and I'm positive the pontoon boat can go a lot faster than 8 knots, but the First Mate and I prefer the slow lane :)