Re: New to site
Two foot seas on a pontoon will be a wet and dangerous ride. Remember, this is a displacement hull and with a flat deck, any water over the bow turns this boat into a submarine. They simply do not ride well over waves and can best be described as flat water to moderate chop boats. Let me put this in perspective for you. At about 10 - 15 mph a wave over the bow causes the boat to pitch down. The deck becomes a diving plane just like those on a submarine. The net effect is the sharply downward pitch throws people forward. At some point the bouyancy of the boat and the fact that the prop has come out of the water, causes it to stop going down and because it is at an angle, it pitches backward and up. This happens at frightening speed and the people are now pitched over the bow rail or against it. How do i know this? Just such a scenario was tested by yours truly during a river survey of potential bridge construction sites. All of us got wet and fortunately nobody was run over. The cause??? Too many people at the bow when the bow wave from a barge washed over the bow.
