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Originally Posted by brk-lnt
How much water gets in exactly? I've never owned a pontoon boat, but just looking at the overall volume of the logs, and thinking about how compressible air is, it would seem that by the time enough water got in that its freezing (and slight expansion) were enough to cause issues you'd be WELL aware of it.
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The problem becomes when a small amount of water gets trapped in the corner of the weld seams. This mainly happens in the nose cone section where a lot of welds, seams and sections come together at different angles and water can get trapped. It doesn't take much either.
Last year when my pontoon was first put in the water I had a small weld pop in the front of my center pontoon. Over the period of a couple weeks I could tell something was wrong as my speed slowed by 5 MPH and I could feel the drag.
Fay's pulled the boat and it took two hours for the water to drain. A quick trip to the weld shop had me up and running the same day.
Dan