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Originally Posted by ishoot308
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
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Interesting.
Seems like it would be relatively easy to add a simple pressure gauge/sensor to the 'toons. Since they are pressurized slightly (or should/could be), you wouldn't even need much of a gauge, just a basic redlight/greenlight indicator. If I had a 'toon, I'd probably build something like that just for the sake of easily knowing that no cracks had developed.