Homemade fishing boat with foldable pontoons 

I don't even know how I came here from SNL and crochet videos. I don't fish and live faraway from any body of water, and honestly I kinda hope that something silly would happen (and it didn't)...but I'm glad I watch this. It's quite interesting and impressive. 👍👍

А ведь согласись,что есть большая разница между купленным и сделанным собою лично! Хорошо ,что есть ещё творцы,а не потребители. Удачи,здоровья и счастья. Так держать!!!!!

I’m not a fisherman and normally wouldn’t care about a fishing boat but the ingenuity here made for a very enjoyable video. Bravo! Nicely done!

Now that's slick. If you are on a small lake or pond this is the way to fish!

Greetings Brother! I’m 47 years old and being born and raised here at Lake of the Ozarks, I’ve been fishing primarily for Crappie and Catfish my whole life. . Two years ago my son, who is now 12, discovered fishing as well, and we haven’t gone more than 48 hours without fishing, every Summer Vacation since that time!! We love fishing. Crappie are easily taken here right off of boat docks. But in my neck of the woods, catfish, especially “Trophy Size” Blues and Flatheads, won’t be taken often, if at all, without owning a small boat to go out at night when they hunt. To that end, I’ve been researching the available options for building one or two small craft for specifically for that purpose, and in all my hours and hours of looking ( days is more like it!). your design, is exceptional in its simplicity and portability, and is one of my favorites, by far. I see many short “Great Job” , and “Cool!” type of generic, quickie comments on your project, but I also see a few , that I feel are a bit condescending. No, your boat won’t last two seconds on my lake on a Saturday , during tourist season, or anyplace that has a name ending with, “Ocean”.. But that’s because you obviously don’t live on, nor plan to use your craft ON any of those waters. It looks to me like a private lake, obviously restricted in its use, and you have no need to fear the Towel Sharks swamping you with their 40’ Sea Ray , monstrosity , that they paid half a million dollars for, to drive 3 months a year. Your design is lightweight, cheap (comparatively) , super easy to build, and in my opinion, your boat is PERFECT for someone with specific needs. Many people become professionals once they get behind a keyboard. They make suggestions about how you should have done this, and why didn’t you do that...How come you didn’t? Blah, blah... You designed it they way you did for a reason YOUR REASONS, for YOUR location and needs. This ain’t your 1st Rodeo either . You’ve arrived at this design based on previous attempts. I wonder how many guys picking apart your efforts have even had the Sack to Man-Up and build their own boat from scratch.? No kit, no blueprints, but from scratch? So, in closing, I’ll only offer these two thoughts for your consideration. 1). The Internet and especially social media , has inadvertently caused most of us to forget our manners. Many of us have become conditioned to see everything through only our own lens, making us very intolerant of anything we identify as not perfect in our conception of the world. Along with now having the ability to be cruel and/or judgmental of others...anonymously.... Don’t let those voices discourage you or your future ideas. Most people can’t see past themselves anymore . Don’t let them discourage you. 2). Keep up the good work!

Every since I was a boy, I always wanted to build something like this. A slight different design is what I've had pictured in my head all these years but many things shown in your video, just might piece together some of things I would need to do to accomplish my childhood dream. I'll be retiring in 2 or 3 years so this might make a very good retirement project for me. Thanks for the video! Have a great day!!!

Now that's a good design. Compact and strong. Well done..... Sitting golf clap from me..

Me thinking the pontoons were some sort of oversized crab pot float 🧐 Me watching this guy make layer cake out of insulation 😱🤯👏👏👏

Отличное плавательное средство, и главное сделано из подручных материалов! Гений).

Бог дал разум и место откуда растут руки. В нужном месте все и сошлось. Получилась классная штука. Правильный товарищ. Творец. А недочеты он исправит.

Я не удивлюсь если мотор из бензотримера сделал!!!!!! Четко! Экономно!

Awesome guys, I am amazed with your invention and it will be added to my DIY project list. I love fishing and will keep a tab on your video uploads on RU-vid. Thank you. 👍🏾

Молодец мужик..делаешь толковые вещи..только когда выйдешь на открытую воду,лучше иметь с собой небольшие весла.На всякий случай.С Уважением из России.

Отличный аппарат получился! Браво!

GREAT TO SEE PEOPLE MAKING THINGS WHO THINK "OUTSIDE THE BOX".

Đơn giản mà hiệu quả! Rất tuyệt vời bạn ơi!

That is pretty awesome... Someone got an "A" in engineering class!

Phase 4 and 5; Drink cooler(s), umbrella. Phase 6 and 7: Angled panel on front for better planing and extend (bend around chair back) tiller for easier control. It's called "Kaizen" (continuous improvement). ;-) That's until you reach the stage of "Shoot the Engineer, go into production".

As a commercial plumber .i must say.very nice work ..using .pvc👍🏻!

SUPER - умно придумано всё из доступного материала .просто и гениально .

Good job 👍 it looks like the piece of plywood and long 2/4 that I unsuccessfully built my ms-Ippy river raft out of when I was 12. Accept yours is a much more adult version that actually works. 👍 good job 👏. I know what I’m doing this weekend.

Very nice....ideal for ponds and small waters. GOOD JOB!

Im going to build one of these for ice fishing. Just kidding, NICE JOB!

Nice boat fishing

Super! I have watched your fishing boats evolve, that's what it takes- step by step improvement. I'll bet many of the guys watching are saying "okay he's got the thing about perfect, time to build a copy NOW!" Thanks for sharing.

That's actually an interesting design, better thought out and more functional; it could do double duty as pontoon system for a gold dredge.

Freak'n AWESOME mannn!! THNX 4 sharin' tht idea!!!

looks very stable, and cool. We lost a great little 2.5hp seagull motor in the Port Adelaide river years ago when it came loose. It will only happen once!

Отличная идея и исполнение !! Молодец мужик !

One of the best DIY projects iv ever seen, its only missing one thing, an anchor. Awesome project Sir

Идея - супер , реализация - 5 баллов.

Very, very cool. This is just the thing for farm pond fishing......and to give me a project. Thanks for sharing

I've seen literally 100s of these type of videos. Being an avid D.I.Y guy myself, They all seemed to need majior improvements, in one way or another. But, this one on the other hand, is a quality build.. Im impressed.. Awesome work..🍻🍻🍻 slaute..

Wow I didn't realize the amount of time that went into making the pontoons! Nice job. I surely learned some stuff from this video!

Genius design for a DIY project!

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice build. I'm impressed! Thanks for sharing.

Молодец, прекрасная идея которую можно развивать дальше! I wish you success!

Pretty cool and have fun and take care and take it easy and enjoy it

That's a very good idea, you're a smart

Very nice build. Well done on total rigidity and stability, with interlocking structure. I like it!

I think this will work pretty good just to make bigger pontoons and front ones more pointed for aerodynamics. These are just getting by. If you made them bigger and filled the tubes, almost all of them with expanding foam Not only would it be more buoyant but it wouldn't ever sink because no water can get in those tubes. The phone takes up all the space for water. I think if you do those two things that thing will work awesome!! Just giving you some tips from the one I built.

Comfortable and home made. Nice

some nice little solutions in this, clever

Great job. Having watched this I think I would make the front floats with an angle for less resistance and to help keep the front up. My 6 year old grandson enjoyed watching this with me and discussing how you were building it and why you did it this way or that. Thanks for that experience my friend. Now I want to see a 10lb + bass tow you around the pond lol.

Отличный плот! Для не больших водоемов!

Good job. I love the idea and have boiled down my efforts to inflatable crafts. They fit in the trunk!

This one has given me a lot to think about

Pretty nice design! One recommendation I would make is to use A-line X coating on the pontoons this way you don't have major problems if you run into any hard objects while in the water. It would be pretty easy for a hard piece of debris to make a bad day because the pontoons are made out of high density foam. Align X coding would make it a lot more stout and in the incidents were you did hit a hard piece of debris it would keep it all held together if the foam did break even within the line X coding.

Thanks sir . you gave a good idea how to make outriggers flotation for my canoes. enjoy life .

Thats a brilliant little boat realy impresed also take a lk at those home made helicopters 👍

This wessel is sooo cool, love it! Maybe a solarpanel... and a cooler..... for beer!

Awesome idea!! Kudoes on the styrofoam pontoons..........I love it, man.......Good job!!

That is fantastic and I must say the best thing I’ve seen yet for fishing around weed areas as well

Looks like you have the center of gravity perfect. Great job! And it scoots pretty good.

Me too .i live in Northern British Columbia in the summer,but Arizona in the winter.Colorado river

Gorgeous

That’s freakin awesome dude. Job well done. And well built too!!

You should mass produce them. Great invention!!!! I'd buy one!!!

A great idea , thank you for sharing sir ..

man..what are u duin?!! very creative,impressive..i like that..

Awesome idea and build. Good thinking dude! The only thing I see that could be added is V shape foam shields to the two front floats to break and disperse the water easier while going forward. That might help glide through the water easier, less stress on the trolling motor.

Definitely going to make this. Thanks

Sensacional!!... amazing and simple!!... perfect !... Just Genius !... thnks for sharing! Deus Abençoe.

Add unbrella holder on that chair for the sweltering hot days... Great vid!

dude, this is amazing

Nice DIY project. Greetings from sunny Jamaica.

You are truly creative.

Muito bom; parabéns...

Genius! Love the folding pontoons.

Awesomely awesome!!! WOW!!!

Здорово ! Так можно и парусный катамаран сделать . Идея классная пвх крепкий материал.

Hey man this is an awesome DIY project, well done!!!! God bless you brother and thank you for sharing the build and everything!

That's awesome 👍😃

Cute little bagger!

Lonny, your pontoon boats improve with every one you build.

Great project and the only thing I would add is an oar, you know for those times when you have a technical difficulty you cannot resolve.

Now that's cool ,,, ☺️☺️☺️ be safe ,

Ingenuity at its finest.

Hey love this one. Did like the other but this ones to cool if I could make one for my size ide love on. But need twice the pontoons lol. Have a great weekend and hope to see more builds. God bless

Зонтик от солнца и ваще топ🙃👍

Хорошая вещь ..... для бассейна ;)

This is so cool! I want one!

Awesome.. just need a built in cooler and a spot for fish and maybe a big umbrella.

Much better but, anyway, what I would like to say is that you don't need to use the cleaning (purple) colored solution, the clear PVC glue in itself will cement the PVC fittings to the pipe, and it will be water tightly; once cemented you won't be able to separate the fittings from the pipe.

Great build , thanks for sharing…

Great project. Well done.

Very Nice project, Good for any DIY Person, Nice for Ponds or Small lakes brilliant👍

Hideous music ! But I stuck through it - great idea & design, hats off to you !

awesome build! thanks.

Spectacular. Nice design-ver well thought out and nicely balanced. Have fun and keep up the good work.

Ingenious and clever, paint the nose of the pontoons red and you've got a classic Star Trek Enterprise fishing boat.

This reminds me of the time I never build anything like this

Does anyone else see the gator hanging out in the water behind him?.... great boat by the way.

Very cool great idea.

Of all the designs of yours, that I've seen so far... and that's several, but probably not all... I like this one the best... simple and easily fast enough for its purpose... I might increase the circumference of the pontoons adding just enough length to their support arms to accommodate the added size... to increase buoyancy and lift your deck maybe 2 more inches out of the water... I'm not sure it is entirely necessary but if I were to make any changes that would probably be it... other than possibly adding a small cooler under the chair...

Nice. Only change I would make would be; design a cone shape front & back for each of your pontoons. It would allow the pontoons to slice/glide through the water, thus reducing drag, and which in turn would reduce the energy consumption of the electric motor.

That thing's pretty cool that's pretty ingenious good fishing I might have to make my own

Great simple design.

Great innovation! I think you need a folding umbrella to complete the design. We are going after the fishes and not sunburn. :)