Beaching pontoon?

[Grarrf]

Hey gang,
I very new to pontoon life.
We sold our sail fish and bought a Bennington (pre owned).

We live on the coast and their are many islands in the intracoastal that we go to.

My question: is it structurally safe to beach your pontoon and leave it there?

When the tide is going out, this is not something I can do when the tide is coming in. I was curious if it’s OK or can it damage the pontoons?

Thanks

 

[BigD]

Lot of people do it, but we will not be.

 

[Remediation]

Never beach stern first. Broke both transducers because I was an idiot. Needed to work on the prop and was not thinking. The keels and toons can handle sand with little problem.

 

[Potomacbassin’]

By structurally safe, do you mean can the metal toons handle the weight of the boat on their keels? If so, yes they can and in fact when stored on dry often times you'll see pontoons put up on blocks (wood, plastic etc) at the welds where multiple toon sections are welded together.

I beach my boat all the time and the only concerns are an outgoing tide and - if we get stranded - are my kids and wife's backs strong enough to push dad back in the water!

 

[BigKahuna]

People beach their boats all the time! I don't like to because you just don't know what is on the shore line. Little stumps, big stumps, jagged rocks, metal sticking up etc. With that being said the keel that runs the entire length is there to protect the pontoons. My marina places our boat on a concrete wash pad every time we take the boat out so we can load our stuff and deploy the double bimini. I wasn't comfortable with it being placed on concrete at first but we are okay with it now ....