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    Pontoon trolling motor mounts?

    What’s a good trolling motor mount, for the front of the pontoon? Anyone run a rear trolling motor? Trying to find something that won’t be “in the way” so much. Will need to be quick detach for party days and what-not, it’s really too bad there isn’t an under the belly trolling motor setup...
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    Small cheap roof for storage?

    I have a 21ft pontoon, i was considering takiing a chunk out of my fence in the backyard to park it for the winter, and getting one of those canvas "V" shaped things to set tightly overtop of it. Kindof like those little shade roofs they use for events outdoors. All i need is something to keep...
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    Bimini Top Replacement?

    Well it happened. The top on my 2021 sylvan pontoon shredded. Drive it to the lake almost every day, without the protective boot on. The other day, wind came up, had a hell of a fight getting it on the trailer in 3ft waves, managed to slam it on the trailer by parking the trailer half out of...
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    Loaded pontoon cavitation

    So it works fine unloaded, but I’ve noticed when loaded down pretty much max, I have a lot of cavitation issues intermittently with the prop. It seems I can play with the trim a bit and make it mostly go away, (deeper DOES NOT Seem to be better.) it’s not a huge deal but just curious what...
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    Decent reels??

    So I have 3 $80 “decent” reels I use the most. I bought a couple $20 rod/reels just for minor fishing, mostly bluegill and crappy lakes. Prolly will use for ice fishing too. 4lb test line, but all 3 of these new cheapie reels fail to operate almost immediately. What’s a good reel for the...
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    Tube pulling?

    2021 90hp sylvan 21ft fish n cruise, we recently boat a 3 person big mable tube for it and a cheap tow rope. What’s a good way to hook it up? Can you tie right to a cleat at the back? I ordered one of those tow harnesses but it’s not sounding like it’s going to be here for my daughters birthday...
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    Tying to dock/reaching it

    So I’m very new to the boating world but always been a great operator of machiner and what-not. So having a fishing pontoon it is a bit of a pita to dock on some of these tiny lakes with tiny docks, against the wind, ect. While being alone. Many times, before I can throw it in neutral, and reach...
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    Power anchor install trick!

    Alright so I got my Minkota 40 installed. After much consideration, I decided to do it this way for simplicity, eventually might get a quick detach for it because it WILL be a pita to restring. The short wires that go to the electronics under the shroud made it rough to get back together in...
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    Buying a 2021 Sylvan!!

    Well, I finally did it. Going to have a 21ft sylvan Cruise N Fish in about 2 weeks. The prices of used are pretty damn high right now, so we ended up getting a 2021 with a 90hp Yamaha motor. so what accessories do people recommend?? How do ya like the Yamaha motors?
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    Buying a ‘toon advice

    We currently own a 76 palm beach, with a 9.9 motor. trailers built in. (Hitch folds upward and axle folds up between the tubes) we call it the SS Swallows because it’s hilariously a floating pile of garbage I bought for $200. now we realized we love boating so much we’d like to get something...
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    ‘99 4str 9.9 Evinrude carb?

    Recently had REALLY hard start issues e10el4eeb model number. cleaned up the carb, now something got stuck in the main system. So I gotta do a full rebuild. there is a jet, right in the middle of the flor on the bottom side that’s not on the exploded view diagram? (No I am not talking about...
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