Classic Accessories Colorado Boat

There's nothing cheap about this boat. The frame is large, at least 1 inch tubing. Everything seems to be powder coated. Frame pieces line up and pins drop in without rubber mallet smacking. I can't even say that about my Port-a-Bote. (Since sold) I needed to keep a mallet with it to get seats etc. to line up. None of that crap with this boat.The heavy nylon pontoon covering removes with large sleeping bag type zippers. Lots of storage pockets with large zippers. My first time out, I launched next to a guy with a RIB boat, and his obviously expensive boat had the same inflate/deflate valves. He borrowed my double action pump because his foot pump was too slow, and the same fitting worked in his boat's valves.I read other reviews talking about adding a swivel seat piece, and it's very easy. (I ordered the swivel piece along with the boat) The 1st time out though was irritating because I used whatever hardware I had on hand. The wingnuts will leave holes in your fingers, standard bolts spin and don't get tight enough. The photos show version 2.0 of the seat adjustment. I used carriage bolts in the swivel part because the square head section prevents spinning of the bolt, and the large handles of the thumb knobs makes tightening/loosening magnitudes easier. The knobs are Ace Hardware 1/4 x 20 thumb screws which are about $4.50 each. The swivel is attached to the seat with #14 x 1.5" screws. Note that this was all well worth it, as A) You really need a seat swivel to spin and reach things in the cargo basket, and B) adding cargo, trolling motor, ice chest, whatever, changes the balance of the boat, so you need frequent seat adjustments. (For each trip out on the water)It tracks nicely, much better than the Tote-n-Float rubber raft I had years ago. If you row backwards and but some pull into the oars, you can keep up with a kayak, so it does move along easy. I row forward 98% of the time. And those oars. The tubing is about 1/8" thick, these are NOT toy boat oars. There are double locking knobs. The only thing that I might change later is adding pin lock type oar locks so I don't have to get the paddles up vertical and then keep them that way while rowing. That will mean drilling the oar tubing though, and that's a maybe.Here's a caveat about small pontoon boats, and one I didn't think about before getting one. I consider it to be a "death grip" boat. As in keep a death grip on your binoculars, camera, tackle box, cellphone, knife, can of pop/beer, satellite communicator, (Inreach Explorer, you NEED one of those!) or whatever else you have out and are handling while out in it. You are on a seat in open water, feet on pegs like a motorcycle. You drop something in water more than a few inches deep and it's not shiny and easy to see in the mud, or if it doesn't float, it's gone. I repeat, it's GONE. There's nothing underneath you and/or your seat, there's no floor, the mesh thing directly under the seat won't catch it unless you're really lucky.One last thing, I've read bad reviews about this "problem" too: keep a close eye on the air pressure. My motorcoach, with 120 PSI commercial 11R22.5 truck tires changes all the time. (TPMS on the dash) They can be 15% higher on the sun side of the coach while traveling on the freeway. They lose it when the temp drops overnight to the point alarms go off on the TPMS. (The TPMS and I have a love/hate relationship) The pontoons are low pressure and very sensitive to temp changes. Leave them "soft" until you actually put it into the water and head out. Leave them soft if you're heading to the water with an assembled boat in the back of your truck. When out on the water, If the sun gets to them and/or you move into warm shallows, you may have to let them out a little. NEVER leave the shore without your air pump. (Kind of goes without saying though)

It's great, but you CANNOT get parts.

I had tried a kayak, and just didn’t have the balance for it, so I bought this pontoon. I LOVE IT!!! It was super easy to assemble, and using a hand pump, it only took maybe 2 minutes to fill with air. I then took it to the lake to see how it would go. Super easy!! Completely stable, easy to navigate, and very comfortable. I’m a bigger person—almost 6 ft and not thin. That wasn’t an issue at all! The feet rests are adjustable so I was able to set them at a length that was comfortable for me. The boat seat is super comfy. I was able to set the oars at a distance that allowed them to be moved out of my way while I cast my fishing pole. It doesn’t have a “floor”, which to me, is a plus. My heels are always in the water, which keeps me cool on hot days. If it’s really hot, I just drop my feet from the foot rests, and my legs can hang in the water up to my calves. Again, that’s a plus for me! And, even when I let my legs hang down, the pontoon is still perfectly balanced. I’ve had it to the lake several times, and have even taken it down the river. Maneuvering through shoals wasn’t an issue. As far as transporting it, when assembled, it fills a full-size Chevy truck bed. When my husband and I want to go to the lake together, we load his kayak first, then disassemble my pontoon. I put the seat and platform into the back seat of our truck, and the two inflated pontoons are placed in the bed of the truck with his kayak. When we get to lake, it takes only maybe 3 minutes to reassemble my pontoon using 6 pins. Again, I love this thing! I highly recommend it!!

Nice boat

Bought one for me and one for the wife. Both frames fit in the back of my 6' pickup bed by laying two 2x4s across the sides of the bed and strapping them down. One frame in the bed and the other on top of the 2x4s. Pontoons are folded and placed in two totes. I can haul everything I need in my truck (6' bed, crew cab).Last year it was all rowing and good exercise but this year I bought two Mini Kota Endura 30 trolling motors and two marine batteries. With cheaper battery box I have about $250 per boat invested in the trolling motors setup.I also bought small swivel mounts for the seats. I'm going to get a taller seat pedestal and swivel soon to raise me up and give me more leg room. (UPDATE- Did that and didn’t like it. Kept the short swivel but took the raised pedestal off.)I bought everything, the batteries, trolling motors and swivels at Walmart. They had a small marine battery but I opted for a slightly larger one thinking more about charge time than weight.I'm a touch over 300 pounds so the battery and trolling motor puts me right at the boat's weight limit. I had to move my seat all the way forward to help distribute the weight of me and the battery.I had the batteries well charged and I didn’t see any signs of low battery charge while I was on the lake (about 5 hours). I’m not sure how long you can run the motor before it goes dead. Some of the more expensive battery boxes have charge indicators and USB ports but I got the cheaper on. (UPDATE.. ran my boat yesterday for about 4-5 hours at top speed and battery was still strong)Mini Kota recommends that you have the propeller 12” under the water but the 30 inch shaft on this particular trolling motor and where it mounts on the boat only puts the propeller at about 6 inches which is a concerned. Had I thought about this, I may have gone with a different trolling motor with a longer shaft.It takes me about one hour to assemble both boats and probably 20 minutes to tear them down. I used and electric air pump to blow up the pontoons partially and a hand pump with a gauge to top them off. I can carry the boat without the trolling motor by myself but after adding the motor and battery I need another person to help.On the lake the boats are fine. Moving the seat on mine really helped distribute the weight.I’m looking to fabricate and add some sort of floorboard.(Update- tried a floorboard and didn’t like it but I did do a modification to put the trolling motors at the front of the boat. That is working out great!)