Old Pontoon Boat Use

Pontoon boat dock.

An acquaintance has riverfront lot that he acquired so he could have a place he could tie up his boat and leave it in the water a few days if he wanted to. He thought he a small dock to tie up to would be a nice convenience.

What he found was the cost of getting dock permit and the cost of a dock that meets codes was down-right prohibitive. He could beach the boat so to speak and tie his boat up to the shore but he could not build a boat dock.

Getting on and off the boat and putting anything in to the boat was a pain in the backside. His solution was simple. He is allowed to tie a boat to the bank. He found a cheap more or less junk pontoon boat that he got for a few bucks and hauling it away. There are a lot of these pontoon boats out there that the owners cannot sell. The owners have not kept them up and it is too expensive to fix them up.

What he had acquired was a floating platform that that he tied to the bank. A gang plank from shore to the pontoon boat let him get to the pontoon boat, and he tied up his fishing boat to the side of the pontoon boat.

He pulls the gang plank ashore when he heads home. Nobody wants to steal the old pontoon boat, and there is nothing to vandalize on it. He keeps it neat and trash free, and no one complains. He says it is his Green Recycled Boat Dock…He recycled the pontoon boat. 8-) He also said he could use his trolling motor to move it at a snail’s rate of speed. He said that a trolling motor is about all the motor mount could handle. 8-) If he is asked…it is his party fishing boat. 8-)