It is truly amazing where we are with pontoon boats.
At every photoshoot or boat test that I attend, pontoon boats are docked, or on a lift, behind seemingly every waterfront home. That’s not even counting the boats we see out and underway. Sure, this phenomenon is more prevalent on lakes (where most boaters boat, by the way) than it is on the coast. Yet, even in salt water, pontoons have become nearly as ubiquitous as barnacles. In fact, observing this preponderance of pontoons several years ago, I declared, in the wizened style taught to me at Editor’s School, that: “This pontoon proliferation is due for a slowdown.”
Boy, was I wrong. I am not sure where all these boats are going, but I can say that new-model pontoon boats,…
