Homemade stand up pontoon fishing boat 

I drew up a boat on Sketchup using a plastic pallet about a week ago and am delighted to find this build. Love your hack for the larger barrels. I am planning to use the smaller 26 inch barrels for pontoons so will check out your other builds now. Liked, Subscribed.

Always nice to see your inventions evolving. Try having the barrels sideways and not cutting them. You'll only be using 4 barrels instead of 6. With 6 barrels sideways, it would be more stable and can install 2 revolving chairs with ample space left. You could also extend the handle/steering wheel of the motor so you don't have to stoop while operating it. Or maybe have a control panel attached to the side of the chair would be nice.

Best design Iv'e seen so far, stable, fast looks comfortable for fishing .

I like it! I'm gonna try to make one over the next few weeks. Let you know how it turns out. Thanks for the ideas, keep em coming.

It looks great The pontoons look like they come in a lot in the water like they lean in they don't look like they're going to fall apart I guess like you said if they came in some it would take care of that but awesome

Great video

I’d find a way to sink the battery compartment into the floor. Maybe in the center tunnel under the boat.

That thing really moves and quietly. Those batteries are awesome. What if one spread the buckets out so there were about 2' between each one, each side were pre-assembled so you'd have side 1, side 2, a 8' square deck, the chairs, motor, and batteries. This would be a great swimming raft. I would need a ladder to get out of the water.

Looks cool. Concerned about the weight. Great job 👍🏾

I'd leave the pontoon width and make the deck bigger and sink the storage under the deck. Looks like a fun build.

After cutting barrel hit with a torch. Cleans burrs up fast.

By far your best build yet!!!

Looks like you answered my question on the last video and expanded on the idea 😁

Great content as usual!!!!

I like it. May add some type of ladder, just in case you're out on the lake and you fall in.

you r really good man..thanks

It looks good. I would just add a cooler somewhere, so that I could bring a lunch and drink some coca cola.

Looks like some lateral stress on the barrels in the water which in turn could stress the bolts securing the frame to the barrels. Over time that might be a problem. Perhaps an identical frame on the bottom to prevent that would be helpful.

Why not have the barrels “whole” and on their sides? Seems like it would be less drag.

Nice

As a lot have said, you can use 4 whole barrels as pontoons. That would add to the length and stability of the boat. Also you can make a sort of square shade on top have solar panels there but that would be expensive. And yeah battery housing in the deck rather than on it.

Like it. Maybe a little longer?

Looks good but should be a little longer to add more stability along with a curved but open bottom to be able to make it more water able with less drag in the water like in closing the pontoons in shaped foam with a fiber glass coating around them for strength simular in shape to either a kayak or canoe leaving it as wide as it is then you mite be able to slightly increase engine size if wanted plus you could launch it from a boat trailer easier.

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very nice, i like it, and now , i subscribe to you now , thanks for a great video

Definitely a neat build. But you test these in a pond. How would it fair with other boats making wake. May be another thing. But I love it

The barrels seem to be spreading/bowing towards the outside. Need to maybe make a strap type device to put around/ towards the bottom of barrels to keep them from spreading out.

Very different and original.

Damed sharp

I like the evolution of your builds. Just a thought here; consider the effects of leveraging extremes. For example, if your flotation components were extended out twice the distance from center of the size of the deck AND to the corners of an imaginary square, the stability overall should be fantastic. With such wide spacing of the flotation components the center of gravity/balance would shift very little as you move about the deck. Think how drones are built: 4 or more spread out motors, not right in close to the body but extended out like an X. Rather than reinvent the wheel, build on the knowledge of established designs. Going this route might require less flotation components. Also, if the frame (different material?) was below water such that the flotation components held the frame at a lower center of gravity, with a dry frame above water, this too should help stabilize the boat. A simple canopy (Harbor Freight?) for the larger deck and your usual accessories. The entire build be "snapped" together and carried in a pickup, assembled by one person.

I think this is your best so far. I especially like that you can stand-up. Sometimes during a long day fishing we NEED to stretch our legs, not to mention making casting easier. Like that you installed the trolling motor up front where it's easier to control. The video skipped over how the drums went from the foam visible (and maybe not so sealed) to closed. Is it important to have the blue drums in the middle, lol. What is the total weight of the unit minus batteries and motor? Curious to know how easy it is to manhandle into the water. Great build/video, again!

You ever though of using the barrel as your mold ,and filling it with foam for your pontoons

Looks like a lot of fun, and I don't fish.

Wonder how a hexagonal shape would work.. similar to those donut shaped boats?

nifty

Awesome build,what type of screws are you using?

You double it up

Add wheels