GoHoist can lift your pontoon boat. Off the trailer, off the ground, GoHoist will safely and easily lift your pontoon boat. Using the two hoist package, GoHoist uses lifting chains in place or standard lifting straps.

How to Beach a Pontoon Boat in 5 Steps

1. Step 1: Identify a Good Spot. You first task will be to pick your spot where you are going to land.
2. Step 2: Approach Slowly and Cautiously.
3. Step 3: Trim Up and Reduce Your Draft.
4. Step 4: Pull Your Pontoon Boat on Shore.
5. Step 5: Put Down Your Anchor or Tie Up.

The average pontoon boat weighs 2,200 pounds so some minivans can in fact tow a pontoon boat. e.g. Toyota Sienna etc. As a best practice, you can simply get the weight of your specific model of pontoon boat and the trailer and then google search your specific vehicle towing capacity.

How to Lift Your Pontoon Boat off the Trailer Bunks

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2. Lower the tongue of the trailer to the ground to elevate the transom.
3. Block the transom using cinder or wooden blocks [Diag.
4. Place a hydraulic bottle jack under the tongue of the trailer and raise the front of the trailer [Diag.

Expect to pay about $6000 to $12,000 or more for a high quality, all aluminum, precision-welded ShoreMaster pontoon lift.

If your pontoon boat is 4,000 pounds without anything in it, you need to get a lift to accommodate a greater weight. Some of today’s pontoons weight up to 7,000-pound boats and necessity a lift designed for their weight and weight distribution.

The beam of a boat, pontoon or PWC is the most extreme width or breath of the watercraft. Basically the widest portion of your boat. You can then determine the inside width needed to easily park your boat on the lift. It is a good idea to give yourself at least a 10” to 12” cushion.

It will fade gel coat color, seats, bimini, etc. By leaving it uncovered all the time you will devalue your boat so fast it will make your head spin. If you have any desire to maintain the boat’s resale value you will keep it covered at all times when not in use.

Reality: Whenever a boat isn’t being used, it needs to be covered. If your boat will be stored inside, a good cover will help protect it from dust, mice, etc. If it will be stored outside, a quality cover will help protect it from inclement weather.

Generally speaking, pontoons can handle much better in choppy water than other recreational boats since they have at least two hulls, providing more stability to the boat than one hull could.

Not all boat motors can get rained on. More specifically, outboard motors are much more likely to receive water damage due to the rain. On the other hand, inboard motors operate inside or underneath the boat and are much better suited to constant exposure to the rain or submersion in water.

As it turns out, you can safely start your boat engine while out of the water as long as you have a properly connected water supply, like a garden hose attached to the water intake vent.

Preventing water collecting or pooling on your boat cover is best achieved by providing a proper boat cover support system or frame beneath the cover. Even if your cover has a snug fit, a little water can cause fabric to relax and create low points where there were none.

One of the best ways to tarp a boat is with a heavy-duty, waterproof tarp. If you’re covering a boat for winter or any other period of prolonged non-use, then you’ll want to make sure the boat’s components are protected from prolonged exposure to the weather, whether it’s extreme heat, rain or snow.

A giant piece of plastic tarp can be used to cover your boat or your car. However, because they are not custom made for your boat, a lot of plastic tarps are either too small or too big for your boat.

If you are keeping the boat indoors, you don’t need to cover the boat. But, if you are keeping it outdoors and thinking not to cover the boat, it is OK as long as if there are no signs of bad weather (wind, rains, snow, etc.) and insects. If it is kept indoors, you need not cover it at all.

If you are planning to use this technique, make sure you order your tarp a little bit wider than you would otherwise so that there is enough extra material to make a proper channel. Another option is to use boards (planks, plywood, etc.) to prevent the tarp from sagging into the trailer opening.

So don’t cover the motor. If you have your boat shrink-wrapped, ask them to either work around the motor, or leave gaps around the transom so some air can get to the motor.

The manufacturer uses better material, but still cuts corners to ramp up production time. Since OEM’s are made for specific models, the fit for your boat will be much better than the generic. These covers will likely last somewhere between four and ten years, depending on exposure and the type of fabric used.