Posted: 03/28/2008 at 6:56pm | IP Logged

I was talking to Jim Myers, President/Owner of www.pontoonstuff.com today and during the course of the conversation I told him how I eventually came to the forums. He found it interesting and thought it would be fun to see how everyone else came about viisting/joining here - so how about it folks - tell us what brought you here. I'll go first with my history.

I started by looking specifically for armrests that I could attach to the seats, as some of you know, my wife is handicapped and can't get up without assistance if she isn't high enough to push up and something to hold onto. So the search was on and since I do a lot of shopping on ebay, I found the armrests I was looking for. Made the purchase and while I was looking at the sellers info, noticed that he had an ebay store, so I visited it, and discovered he had a web site. Naturally being the techie dude I am, checked out the web store and found he also had a real store - web site also showed he had a forum. Well I've been to other boating forums and just didn't find the 'feeling' I had with this site. I've been to www.iboats.com and even bought stuff from them too (hard to find items) but I kept coming back here even after some folks talked about Deck & Pontoon Mag forums. But yet, I kept coming back here and I finally joined the forums. Haven't looked back since and the folks here on the forums were just great. So was pontoonstuff.com as the product I bought on ebay arrived within 3 days - very very quick for an ebay purchase. I've learned since then, that's a pretty much standard practice for www.pontoonstuff.com and good prices too. I can't express how much I really appreciated the folks here on the forum and especially the staff at PontoonStuff during the last 3 weeks I've come to know since they made me one of the forum admins. I want to make this the best forum site you guys could ever enjoy and with your help I will.

Thanks so much - Charles

Now tell us how you made your way here if you don't mind - Jim and the staff would really like to know (so would I).

Posted: 03/29/2008 at 2:59pm | IP Logged

I'm first , I'm First. O Happy Day to Me

I had to rebuild my old Tooner or buy a new one so I like many others hit the internet air ways.

Best I can remember I went to my search engine and typed in something like 'pontoon parts & forum'. that lead me to two sites. I put both on my front page so I could check them out better.

Sorry, but I joined the other site first , but later found out that Pontoonstuff was the BETTER site.

I have received alot of great info from this site and yes bought a few items for my rebuild that is on hold at the moment. Mybe in 1 or 2 more weeks I will hear something and get back at it if things go south, but I'm still in the running.

Still doing alittle on the toon, work-no. Calling and finding things ,yes.

Found a guy that will rebuild my 75hp evinrude for around $500, complete. That is if the foot is ok. But I have found a foot for $50.

Just want to say that this is the BEST PONTOON SITE on the WEB.

Posted: 04/01/2008 at 1:02pm | IP Logged

I'm very active on some truck forums and have made some great friends because of them.  It only seemed natural to join a boat forum when I started shopping for a pontoon boat.

I googled 'pontoon boat forum' and it brought me here .

Posted: 04/01/2008 at 2:59pm | IP Logged

Wildcat Dude wrote: Bob, welcome to the forums and I apologize for anyone not giving you a proper welcome the first time (you must have just fit in so well ) and if you ever need anything for your pontoon or trailer, the folks (Jim and Andrea Myers) at www.PontoonStuff.com will treat you right - Always. Since Jim made some of us admins and we in turn got some guys to be moderators, I want us to be sure we welcome everyone because we all just a big family of pontooners here to learn and share what we've learned

Thanks for the welcome.  'Wildcat' wouldn't happen to mean Kentucky Wildcats would it?  (I've been wanting to ask that ever since I joined)

I've looked over the pontoon stuff site.  It looks like a user friendly site with pretty good prices.  I just ordered a rear corner cap from a dealer and am going to have to pay about 3 times what they sell for on there.   Next time, I'll check before ordering anything from a dealer.  It's a fairly new boat, I hope I don't need any parts for a while but if I do, I'll give pontoon stuff the first shot.

As for this site, I love reading all of the tips and experiences of more seasoned boaters.  I've been around boats for several years and owned 2 ski boats but this is my first pontoon boat.  It's certainly easier/cheaper to learn by reading rather than screwing up.

Posted: 04/21/2008 at 9:07am | IP Logged

I am on several other forums including, Snowmobileforum.com & Iboats.com, also a few others.

When I decided to buy a pontoon I was looking for a pontoon specific forum to ask some questions before buying. So I asked a question on iboats.com and there were two different sites that people recommended and I chose this one based on the layout of the site and how it was geared directly towards pontoons only.

There was another site that I was told about that was for pontoons and deckboats(I am not going to say the name) but I felt this one would better suit my needs.

Posted: 05/03/2008 at 5:42pm | IP Logged

Welcome aboard Bill, and please do post some pictures either in Show Off Your Pontoon or if you happen to have before and after pictures, please show us your proud hard work in Pontoon Rebuild Projects. I'm glad I was able to help you out with your registration difficulties. I see you've already taken care of your signature line . Riverboat lives up in your neck of the woods but I'm not sure how close he is.

Since you've already been to the store, be sure to send an email for the decals if you didn't get them in your order, as they just arrived last week. I think you definitely qualified for both the large and the bumper sticker types with your order. Just email andrea@pontoonstuff.com (Andrea Myers aka pontoongirl), and say Andrea, wildcat dude said I could get big and small decals because of my big order - how about it (and get several while you're at it).

Posted: 05/21/2008 at 4:35pm | IP Logged

Ahoy Robert, Welcome Aboard,

 This is a Pontoon family friendly forum and a great place for people like yourself to extend your own idea's and experiences, Hope to see you here often

Happy Pontooning......................Mike

Posted: 06/02/2008 at 1:01pm | IP Logged

WooHoo! I'm in!  

   My wife and I had met someone that was selling a 1980 Lowe 20' toon with a 70hp Johnson for $1k. I wasn't really thinking about getting a toon, but my wife said she had wanted one. We never really even talked about getting a boat at all! They put it up for sale, during their yard sale, on the Friday before Mother's day. I figured, if they hadn't sold it by Sunday, we'll take it. Sunday evening came and my wife wanted to know where the boat was! We went over there and baught it just as someone else was showing up with MORE than what he was asking for it...WHEW!

   Anyway... not knowing a thing about pontoons, I hit the web, trying to gather as much info as I could. While looking for seats, decking, etc... I came across Pontoonstuff.com. WOW! Great prices and a nice assortment of STUFF for pontoons...  and LOOK! A forum!

Posted: 06/13/2008 at 11:01pm | IP Logged

  Well someone has to be diferent.

 When we bought our boat last summer the guy told us about this site. He did not mention anything about the forum. I like others like reading about others rebuild. Mine should be finished this weekend. (I am on a tight schedule) bought everything from pontoonstuff.

Posted: 06/23/2008 at 8:07pm | IP Logged

I have always been a speed boat or fishing boat person. I started looking around at the dock in Leesburg Florida (Lake Harris) one day at all the Pontoon Boat on the water that got me to thinking about buying one. I was looking at the room to move around on the deck, and the all the extra stuff on deck. I looked at a lot of different one not hard looking just looking. Then we made our annual trip to Sanibel Island, these trips started with my whole family and 25 years latter, the whole family still going. The different now I have grand children. I am blessed with the family I have, and for that I’m also thankful. This is the only thing that changed; Mom & Dad still pay for the trip. Any way last year my wife talked me into a sea shell trip. This was a one day trip to different islands to look for shells. When we get to the dock and meet the Captain, we along with about 15 other people load onto a Pontoon boat for a day of adventure. During this trip the Pontoon bug sunk his teeth into me and good. My mission in life was to seek out and buy a pontoon boat. I found a 1985 16 foot Harris with a 70 hp Evinrude, 1988 model that had just been rebuild with less the 40 hours on the motor(Paper work to prove it. 2500 dollars later I was on my way home with my first pontoon boat. (What are my buddies going to say)?

The little boat needed a little work, as the previous owner was a die hard fisher man, who only needed 3 seats on the boat. I got the boat home and went to work making this little pontoon boat a family pontoon boat. Named the boat “Smiling Dolphin” my grandson who is 5 years old, help me every chance he gets loves dolphins and sea world. Well my wife, grandson and I take the boat out on the lake and have a great time. It runs and looks like a new boat. It runs real fast with that 70 hp motor on it. We do the different lake thing several times, hitting all the different lakes here in Lake County Florida. Then my son and his wife want to go on the next trip, along with my best friend the hard charging off shore fisher man, my daughter & we throw in the mother in law for good measure. On the lake we go for a 4 hour night cruse. Man was this boat loaded and all that room I had was gone. So the search was on for a bigger boat, because I’m sure this is not a one time thing, I still have one more son and his wife were talking about going on the next trip. So I find a beat down 24 foot Fiesta with the only thing I could reuse are the pontoons.  A lot more work needed on this boat, but for 200 dollars I could not go wrong. Well 8 months of working on this boat, it’s almost ready for the water again for the first time in 7 years. So my search to replace the entire interior landed me at Pontoon Stuff. I am now a die hard patriot of. These people have been great, and the shipping is at my gate in little to no time at all. I have talk with them about wiring issues. And they spon feed me the info. What a great bunch of people. While shopping on Pontoon Stuff home page I saw this page. And that’s how I landed here. Now I need to figure out how to post pictures.

Sorry if it a little long. But this is the readers digest version of how I got to this spot.       

Posted: 07/09/2008 at 5:39pm | IP Logged

I just bought a 21' 1995 Party barge that was sitting under a tarp at our local marina. We asked to look at it for the heck of it and it looked in great shape and the marina wanted it off the lot. So anyway a few days later I owned it and was looking for info on pontoon boats and parts. I searched the internet and found this site and was amazed by all the info I could find. I am sure I will be reading and posting questions often.