The Soda Pop Bottle Pontoon
This entry was posted on 5/17/2007 11:39 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Here's the S.S. Minnow. The name that came in 2nd was Catfish Hunter. It is one of the few known soda pop bottle pontoon boats. Expand the picture by clicking on it, and see where the near pontoon burst along a bend during its winter spent in the ice along the shore. A few days of wind drove the pontoon against the rocky shore and holed it. You can also see a few of the plastic soda pop bottles. Al Gore would be proud to own this pontoon.
I hate to admit this, but I tried lowering the bay by cleaning out the creek, which flows out of the bay, to increase its flow. It was an attempt to lower the 140 acre bay by about a foot, so I could trailer the thing out. Not surprisingly, that didn't work.
The following Spring, a year ago, several other attempts were made to raise the Minnow. One included inverted pickle buckets, that pushed against the underside of the deck, when filled with air. There is a very small chance that might have worked, but the wind came up one day after the ice was out, and further damaged the pontoon, separating most of the deck from the pontoons. Finally, a come along was purchased and over the course of about 4 hours, the one filled with water was dragged out. The other pontoon, was mostly undamaged and was easy to get out.
