Re: New member and have a few toon ?'s
A party barge is a completely different animal than a Maxum and as such handles differently. Hulled boats are designed to plane, while pontoon boats basically plow through the water. That's why they're so much slower. If everything is working properly the front of the tubes will lift some to give you decent speed, but on a barge you're constantly displacing water rather than riding on the top of it. As a result you'll take some water over the bow in rough water and while crossing wakes, but that's okay. It will drain back down off the deck. Between you and me I sometimes splash folks up front intentionally and play dumb when they glare at me. You can mitigate the splashing some by quartering across the wakes so you're not hit squarely by the water. If the weather gets bad you'll still need to get off the water just like in your other boats. You'll know when it's time.