Pontoon Boat Slide

I've searched everywhere for both these things and am having no luck... thanks!!

Do you mean ventrioquist doll? When I checked Ebay, they had 236 listed. You can also try this site:
http://www.frankelcostume.com/Ventriloqu ist-Dummies

As for the slide for your boat, I don't think they make slides specifically for boats. I'd try a pool store.

2008-03-12 06:19:09 by Sammi

Memorial Day weekend on the pontoon boat. Chad took Gianna down the slide on the pontoon boat for her first time and she loved it!! We had a great ...

I have a pontoon boat that I have on a trailer with carpeted bunks. The boat is used in salt water and has expensive anti-fouling paint applied.The boat is a bitch to launch & recover due to the friction between the pontoons and the carpet. I want to install glides (slides) over the carpet but the glide manufactures don't know if the paint will be worn off. Has anybody had experience with this? Mike

It seems to me that if the boat is hanging up on the carpet to such an extent that it jams, then plastic slides could not possibly remove any more anti-foul than the carpet already is.

I have not had this as a problem myself, as the boats I anti-foul tend to stay in the water most of the time, and the ones I pull out a lot I don't anti-foul.

Good luck!

2009-05-07 13:34:35 by michael m

Price: $14.99 $14.99

Replaces your old bimini top hardware
Includes thumb screw
1-1/4 inch slide adjuster bracket

We have an 18 ft pontoon boat trailer and are needing to replace the carpet on trailer. Carpet is coming apart from trailer and boat is extremely hard to come off trailer in water. What is the best solution for this problem? We considered replacing carpet and also adding slides on top of carpet. Anyone know of the least expensive place to purchase these from??

Trailer manufacture companies always use a 100% "Polypropylene" fiber bunker carpet. It's thin and sheds water quickly, and doesn't rot or mold, and is somewhat slippery. Marine carpeting never has a "Backing". It's tougher and is interwoven within itself. That type of carpeting lasts for years unless it gets torn or damaged.

Using "Household" carpeting can work, but doesn't last. Indoor carpeting is usually made from polyester with a cotton/jute backing. By being wet/damp, it'll break down faster and causes "Sticking" issues with the hull, especially if the boat sits on the carpeting for extended periods.

You can by "Bunker" carpeting from places like West Marine, Cabela's, Bass Pro shops, and boating supply companies online. It's cheap and should give you years of use. I own two boats on trailers, both have the carpeting as original from the builder EZ Loader. First trailer is 1998 and the other is 2002. Even the 2 x 4 bunkers are in good shape. You can add "Slick Stix" to the top of the bunker after replacing the carpeting.

2010-07-21 16:00:05 by Proud_Army_Wife

Price: $29.99 $29.99

Easy to install
Keep your pontoon updated
1-1/4 inch x 32 inch

His father always wanted him to go on boat trips. A canoe, a pontoon, a sh*tty little fishing boat with holes in the bottom and a smoking 3-horse engine knotted to the back, sometimes just a sh*tty little fishing boat without the motor, only a pair of long handled wooden oars with the stain mostly worn off on the paddle ends. Any boat would do, just as long as his father had his son’s company, his boy’s undying attention and innocent ear, a companion that would listen and nod his head and talk scarcely and call him dad.
Every Saturday for the entire summer of the ninth year of his life he was taken out on the boats, out to the middle where the water waited with frosted tops and the weed bottoms sucked at the surface and swirled its traps above. His father always seemed to find the exact middle of the lake, the perfect spot to make the boy feel small and insignificant and lonely; the place that made it okay to talk about things that you couldn’t mention at the dinner table or on the way to church. What was said and done in that boat was eternally trapped there, surrounded by the metal sheen of the water and the razor like ripples of the waves. It was as if the secrets of his father had no way of escaping, with the waves, the boat, and the words that were spoken keeping them there to live on forever. He wished his father hadn’t bothered talking about things beyond the boat’s dark prison; his words were out of place and unreachable to the boy. It was all that God-damned talking that made everything worse than it had to be, and it was the doing, not the talking, that he could eventually forget.
When he found himself laying face down on the hot tin surface of the pontoon boat, he always tried to pretend he was playing games and laughing with the kids at school, ignoring the burn on his cheek and the calloused grip of his father's sun baked hands. He would close his eyes and make the images of his friends appear, force them from their false hiding places in the twilight of his mind and bring them to life on the boat with him. Sometimes he would laugh out loud when he saw them and his father's grip would tighten and his father's voice would clear itself in the thick August air and his FATHER'S breathing would sing louder with the gathering wind until the gripping hand fell from his bleeding bottom and the open hand would cup itself over his mouth and slowly slide around his tiny neck to the back of his head and begin rubbing the thin brown strands that hung there wet, like weeds from the waiting shoreline.

"Henry, have you been shootin' that gun I bought ya?"

"Yah, dad, I shot at the bails you put out in back. But I still need some pictures or somethin' to aim at."

"First thing we get back I'll draw some up and cut 'em out offa that cardboard in the garage."

"Can I wash up in the lake before we hook the boat up?"

"Godammit, boy, 'course you will and don't get them clothes wet or yer mother'd not let ya come out no more on these boat trips."

"I'm hungry. My stomach's makin' noises."

In the dusk at the edge of the water, he looked down and saw a school of perch nipping at a bottle top that slowly swayed on the sandy bottom of the shore. He wondered if they would swim away again when he stepped in to wash himself. He wondered where they went and if they had fathers that took them places they didn't want to be. He wanted to swim with them, to float with them, to nip at bottle tops and eat from the bottom of the lake with them. He hated them and didn't know why. He hated the way they looked, the way they swam away when he stepped into the lake, no matter how quietly and slowly he moved. They always swam away. They must hate him, too.

my boat
was a room
a dark place
in a basement
below my
sleeping
parents

my dad
was his
best friend
renting that
hell

he's dead
now
and if
I find him
in hell
I will
kill him
again

2008-10-03 05:35:16 by Mag (Benison)

What do you think about this? I am only asking other Christians here.

From a Christian Forum:

During this past Feast in Montego Bay in Jamaica, one of the more enjoyable activities during the Feast was an afternoon cruise in a catamaran. This is a fast boat built on pontoons which has both a motor and sails. Most went snorkeling. My experience not so successful. Visited Jimmy Buffets, a bar on the seashore that had large moored plastic rafts and innertubes, and a water slide from its second floor that dropped a rider into the Caribbean. The salt water stung my eyes: It’s not like swimming in Lake Michigan! But many of the young women and teenage girls (boat on pontoons) trip in ocean by Montego Bay in Jamaica during last Feast. Most wore bikinis or something else highly revealing. As a man, I knew I had the duty to keep my eyes from looking in certain directions. But should I have to do this during an officially organized church recreational event? It’s one thing to me to have to do this when walking around the Holiday Inn near the pools and beach when I was around people in the world, but why here?

S.P.S. We Christians have to fight the world’s fashion trends by wearing modest clothes ourselves instead of skimpy, revealing clothing.

I Timothy 2:9-10

What does “modesty” mean? “Webster’s” defines this word as meaning, “freedom from conceit or vanity . . . propriety in dress, speech, or conduct.” It isn’t “cool,” or the “in,” thing to do, but it’s what God commands. Is trying to fit in with the world our main goal in life? Should our clothing look the same as the world’s? It did on this boat trip during the Feast in Jamaica. It didn’t on the trip to Dunn’s River either, when we climbed the waterfalls.

My radical thinking when meditating on this later: Why should women’s clothing be any lower cut than men’s clothing? Casual men’s T-shirts are not low cut. Think of your typical rock and roll band T-shirt with (say) “Black Sabbath” or “Van Halen” emblazoned on it. So the difference in how men and women dress isn’t merely about comfort in hot climates merely. Men have less they need to cover up than women, but ironically cover their upper bodies better. Women’s clothing also dysfunctional: One of my jobs at work is to adjust thermostats up and down as needed after people complain. Here’s my general observation: At the same temperature where the men are comfortable, women are cold. Then when the men are hot, the women are comfortable. Two possible causes: Men’s metabolism is faster than women’s. But women also wear less: Men wear suits at church services but women often wear skirts and blouses. Therefore, much of women’s clothing is not merely immodest, it’s also dysfunctional!

We have two extremes: Conservative Muslims who wear not just the headscarf but also the veil. Jack Straw was recently the foreign secretary of Great Britain. As a member of Parliament, he once stirred up some trouble by asking his female Muslim constituents to remove their veils when talking to him. BBC News: “Asking women to consider showing the mouths and noses could lead to true “face-to-face” conservations with constituents, enabling him “to see what the other person means, and not just hear what they say.’” He said (WSJ, Bret Stephens) that “seeing people’s faces is fundamental to the relationships between people.” It’s harder to read someone’s emotions and to know what they think if you can’t see that person’s facial expressions.

But the fashion industry of Western society these days at the opposite extreme. To what extent do we as true Christians resist these trends? My impression from this boat trip is that we’re dressing nearly the same as the world around us. All of us need to dress for Christ.

My answer is no.
and I didn't read all that just the gist of it.
Just because I am Christian doesn't mean I shouldn't wear things that are appealing to me.

Your idea and my idea of modest may be two separate things.

Have a good one!!

Cinn =)

2009-05-05 16:30:04 by Wishing and Praying