Lifting strakes are generally made of aluminum and are fitted to the sides and the bottom of the pontoon boat.

Putting lifting strakes on a pontoon. Many lifting strakes use negative angles which can generate lift but can hurt the quality of the ride due to increased slamming loads. Simply put strakes if well arranged will permit your boat to level out sooner then without them but thats about it on a pontoon boat. It can generate up to 2500 pounds of lift at 25 miles an hour with the hydrofoils used in the Hydrofin System.

Adding more power to a planing hull results in increased speed. The strakes welded directly onto the pontoons produce lift at the bow by displacing water allowing the boat to in essence glide above the water rather than lumber through it. Before you go to strakes which are a good thing BTW make sure you have the right prop.

Lifting strakes provide lift by displacing water and raising the bow above the waterline. Lifting strakes on steroids may be extra wide for even more lift. Manitous lifting strakes work to not only create lift but also to make the ride.

Plus another advantage is the full aluminum underskin on the blue pontoon that is not on the other one. A simple strake with both inner and outer faces the same width will leave the inner face canted at some angle not horizontal. As for the older models owners can opt to have them fitted and installed.

Thus maximizing the lift. Lifting strakes are blocks of metal that are welded directly onto the pontoon tubes themselves to generate lift allowing your boat to lift and glide above the water instead of tearing through it. All you have to do is install pontoon lifting strakes.

The two choices you have are to fully weld the strakes or remove them plug the leaks and then re-weld them on. With strakes a pontoon becomes a planinf hull it moves over the top of the water instead of through it. The lifting action of.