National Safe Boating Week: What You Need to Know
National Safe Boating Week takes place this year from May 19 to May 25with the purpose of educating individuals about the importance of boater safety and life jacket use, according to the National Safe Boating Council, Inc., or NSBC. The NSBC began in 1958 as the National Safe Boating Committee and their purpose was to [...]
National Safe Boating Week is Almost Here!
If you weren’t already aware, National Safe Boating Week is approaching quickly! Starting the 19th, those with a love of spending time on the water are encouraged to put on a properly-fitted life jacket and refresh their boating safety knowledge. We have a series of goodies coming up next week in preparation for National Safe [...]
Win a Trip to the Forrest Wood Cup & Brush up on Your Boating Safety Knowledge
What do you get when you cross an online boating safety quiz with social media? You get the FLW Boating Safety Challenge, a contest launched in April by BOATERexam.com and the FLW Outdoors Foundation. Designed to raise awareness about boating safety, the contest features a 10-question quiz that tests the participant’s knowledge on a wide [...]
Pontoon Boat Cleaning Tips
The following post actually comes from our friend Bryan Hermann from www.ezfender.com, who shared this tale of tube polishing and protecting on the Pontoon Forums website, and it was so detailed we figured we’d share. Thanks Bryan! For those who are interested in polishing and protecting the tubes on your pontoon boat, here is a [...]
A Little Something For Our Pontoon Loving Friends With Blogs/Websites Of Their Own
Love that pontoon of yours? We know many of you out there maintain a blog or website of your own and often times you like to share stories about your fishing or water sports adventures on your Manitou Pontoon. So if you fall into this category, we figured we’d give you a couple of cool [...]
The Notable Knots Have Moved!
If you’re not a follower of technology news it’s quite possible that you never learned about the demise of Geocities, a web hosting service that started in 1994. To make a long story short, it was eventually purchased by Yahoo! and then shut down in the United States in 2009. In the early days of [...]
Manitou X-PLODE – Cobalt 276 comparison
What makes for the best performance boat? Is it speed? Handling? How about luxury? Or is it the obvious combination of all of these features? Every boat model offers its own unique features, which can make choosing the right boat a difficult task, especially when considering different types of boats. The bowrider and pontoon are [...]
U.S. Boating Laws, Safety Courses and Licensing By State
Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | [...]
Boating Safety Quiz from Manitou Pontoon Boats, BoatSafe & Discover Boating
This boater safety quiz was assembled by the online marketing team here at Manitou Pontoon Boats with the help of our friends at Discover Boating and BoatSafe.com. If you’re interested in adding the quiz to your site, just press the “Add Quiz to Your Website” button and copy and paste the code contained within to [...]
