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Pontoon Dolly For Moving Pontoon on Concrete Floors

JimJ said:
I store my pontoon over winter in a storage barn with concrete floors. What does Bennington recommend to use as an easily movable set of four pontoon dollies with large swivel wheels so the pontoon can be moved easily around the floor. (The pontoon has ultralegs/sealegs. These make it harder to load using a scissors trailer. Thus, larger wheels are needed to ensure the trailer can slide beneath the ultralegs/sealegs.) Pontoon is a Bennington 2023 20LSR.
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I purchased four of the Sternmaster pontoon dollies. They came partially assembled. They look to be excellent quality. The frame and casters look like they will support my pontoon quite nicely. I will know more this fall once we bring the new pontoon in for storage. I won't know before then because the dealer will deliver the new pontoon and put it in the lake for us immediately.
 
JimJ said:
I purchased four of the Sternmaster pontoon dollies. They came partially assembled. They look to be excellent quality. The frame and casters look like they will support my pontoon quite nicely. I will know more this fall once we bring the new pontoon in for storage. I won't know before then because the dealer will deliver the new pontoon and put it in the lake for us immediately.
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Wonderful. Keep us posted next fall. When are you expected to get your new boat? Please post pics when you get it. Always exciting to get the new boat. Enjoy!
 
I promised an update once I got the pontoon in the storage barn. I bought 4 of the sternmaster dollies. They came partially assembled. After completing assembly, I placed them under my two pontoon tubes. They work perfect!! One person can move the pontoon into position with one hand. I have a 20LSR with ultra Legs (sealegs alternative) The dollies are very sturdy and the caster wheels are large enough to move easily and freely on concrete.
 
Nice!!!
 
I wanted to add my two cents, my shop has a two post hoist that takes a prominent position directly inline with the driveway and overhead door. While there’s plenty of room for the pontoon, a trailer can’t get it close to the wall and still be able to remove the trailer. I bolted a set of car dollies to my plastic toon stands that allowed me to not only move the boat by myself, but also lets the 115 motor lower completely, perfect for winter maintenance
 

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RangerMTB5 said:
Very nice setup. The question is...how do you transfer from the trailer to the dollies?
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A lift trailer can put the boat all the way to the ground, in my situation with the height of my dollies, the trailer only goes down a couple inches before the boat touches the stands. When we backed the boat into the garage it was on an angle so the truck could pull the trailer out, picture was the position we dropped it down at
 

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Thanks for bringing to light the limitations of a scissors trailer when lowering a boat with sea legs on a common low level dolly wheel assembly. A taller dolly wheel assembly used and presented by member ‘Wamplers Lake’ turned out to be the solution.
I have used dolly wheels to optimize the room in the garage. I can by myself move the boat sidewise against the wall.1761266991749.jpeg
 
Whatever you goofballs do, just make sure that the bow is elevated above the stern for storage.
 
mtudb24 said:
Could you possible use these and make a rolling frame underneath them to mount on? That would mean you could make them any height you want. Just use strong material for the base these would mount on. Maybe a solid piece of a butcher block counter table so it could hold the weight since it won't be setting on dirt or concrete?
We used this on our duck pontoon boat before we got a trailer for it, but as you said, your sea legs will probably be too low.

The only thing I was told my our mechanic is that you want to center them under the nose cone weld and the back end cap weld or you could "fish hook" a log (meaning it would bend)..
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mtudb24 said:
Could you possible use these and make a rolling frame underneath them to mount on? That would mean you could make them any height you want. Just use strong material for the base these would mount on. Maybe a solid piece of a butcher block counter table so it could hold the weight since it won't be setting on dirt or concrete?
We used this on our duck pontoon boat before we got a trailer for it, but as you said, your sea legs will probably be too low.

The only thing I was told my our mechanic is that you want to center them under the nose cone weld and the back end cap weld or you could "fish hook" a log (meaning it would bend)..

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I own 2 sets of these. The first set started cracking after 2 years. The second set is holding up well. I store my pontoon on these outside during cold months, but I wouldn’t trust them on a homemade dolly as the material they’re made from is plastic.
 
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