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You know what a pontoon boat looks like, right? They're on just about every recreational lake in America. Just some simple decking, chairs and a motor strapped to a couple of silver aluminum tubes. Did you know there are $300,000 pontoons? Or 100-mph pontoons? Or pontoons you can wake surf behind? Whatever the sales strategy is, it seems to be working. The pontoon segment led the industry out of the last recession, and sales of freshwater fishing boats and pontoons accounted for 50% percent of all new powerboats sold in 2020. In this episode, we'll speak with serial boat building entrepreneur Mark Overbye about the pontoon segment, the category’s popularity, where some of the high costs come from and what the future looks like for the segment.
You know what a pontoon boat looks like, right? They're on just about every recreational lake in America. Just some simple decking, chairs and a motor strapped to a couple of silver aluminum tubes. Did you know there are $300,000 pontoons? Or 100-mph pontoons? Or pontoons you can wake surf behind? Whatever the sales strategy is, it seems to be working. The pontoon segment led the industry out of the last recession, and sales of freshwater fishing boats and pontoons accounted for 50% percent of all new powerboats sold in 2020. In this episode, we'll speak with serial boat building entrepreneur Mark Overbye about the pontoon segment, the category’s popularity, where some of the high costs come from and what the future looks like for the segment.