A pontoon boat with an 18 inch draft for example can handle as little as 2 feet of water and can be safely beached for an on-shore barbecue or picnic.

Pontoon boat draft. Before you wet a line whet your appetite by having a look at the Angler Qwest Sun Tracker Bass Buggy 16 or Sun Tracker Fishin Barge 22 XP3. While pontoon boats are better skinny water craft than traditional deeper-draft vee-hulled boats you still need to take extra precautions while boating when water conditions are low. Refers to the back end of a pleasure craft.

One of their best compact pontoon boats must be the Eagle. Note that the hulls of triple hull pontoons in particular often sit lower. NA Full specs Compare.

10 posts Page 1 of 1. A pontoon boat also has a shallow draft making it less secure in rough water than a deeper draft ship. If you cant catch fish from any of these fishy pontoons youre doing something wrong.

Parts of a boat - Bow stern starboard port draft waterline. It comes with a sophisticated form of shallow draft that reduces its risk of submerging. 2016 Cypress Cay 250 LE.

Consider Your Hulls Draft. Generally the larger and heavier the boat the deeper the draft. So a Pontoon boat handles mild waves better than a regular boat but will struggle in rougher water.

75 hp motors are substantially heavier and you need to keep the weight on the rear to a minimum. Pontoon boats all have different drafts depending on how large and how heavy the draft is. Especially prone are the man-made flood control and water supply reservoirs so popular with pontoon boaters like me.