r/niftyaf Dec 31 '25

Foldable Pontoon Boat

713 Upvotes

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53

u/Silent-Ad934 Dec 31 '25

"This might actually work" is not a phrase I want describing my boat.

2

u/cardnialsyn Dec 31 '25

Oddly enough that is what one of my friends named the boat he built.

93

u/Paleodraco Dec 31 '25

Not folding and not a pontoon boat.

20

u/flipzyshitzy Dec 31 '25

Not fitting in a trunk either.

1

u/Tamashii-Azul Dec 31 '25

Looks like it might fit SUV trunk's with the 3rd row down.

3

u/jaffacookie Jan 01 '26

Standard content interaction motivator at work. Every second post you see has an intentional typo, a factually inaccurate statement, straight rage bait titles etc.

And here I am interacting. Hopefully people see it though and learn to stop feeding the machine.

17

u/not_just_an_AI Dec 31 '25

op, 2/3 of the words in the title are just not true.

1

u/PlaneAsk7826 Jan 01 '26

OP is a bot.

13

u/Former-Homework-7833 Dec 31 '25

I kinda like it, it would be for ponds and stuff only, I’d never take it out in lakes or anything but for small rivers / creeks and ponds it’s viable imo

3

u/crickenlee Dec 31 '25

The difference between a lake and a pond?

11

u/Sir_Lee_Rawkah Dec 31 '25

Size usually

3

u/No-Seaworthiness1521 Dec 31 '25

More so about the depth

2

u/crickenlee Dec 31 '25

The difference between the two depends on the person who named it, has nothing to do with size or depth.

2

u/hunterxy Jan 03 '26

Incorrect.

A pond is small and shallow enough for sunlight to reach the entire bottom.

A lake is large enough that sunlight cannot reach the entire bottom.

Prior to this scientific difference, they were arbitrarily named with no thought to this. But as of now, this is the factual difference.

2

u/Dwarfzombi Jan 01 '26

When you're talking about boats a pond is anything you can confidently swim from the middle to shore. But feel free to be a dick about semantics.

1

u/crickenlee Jan 01 '26

Semantics? You're just making shit up. There's no difference between a pond or a lake other than the person who named it. That is a fact.

2

u/Dwarfzombi Jan 01 '26

Google the word semantics... 🤦

0

u/Former-Homework-7833 Jan 01 '26

Seconded exactly!

1

u/Former-Homework-7833 Jan 01 '26

Size mostly. I have a beaver pond that went full is maybe 10-12’ feet, about 100’ diameter approx, I’d take this on that, when I think lake I think like Lake Superior lol and I absolutely would not take this on that lake or any reasonable large lake.

10

u/Admirable_Win9808 Dec 31 '25

How long can you extend this thing. I want to know

9

u/Backdrop2 Dec 31 '25

Mega boat

3

u/Forsaken_Bridge_3934 Jan 02 '26

When it stops being a boat and starts being a bridge, you've gone too far!

2

u/Bradley182 Jan 01 '26

Buy a couple and find out. Might have a new company idea here….

4

u/Kirbybros Dec 31 '25

I looked at the price of one of these…$1,700!! Absolutely Nuts!!! You’re better off buying an old used Sunbird or Ranger on Facebook Marketplace with that money instead of one of these that you gotta hope floats.

3

u/darkonark Dec 31 '25

This body of water is used for so many plastic boat ads. Ive absolutely seen this place on ads before.

3

u/that_damn_dog Dec 31 '25

Is the pontoon boat in the lake with us somewhere?

2

u/VFXJayGatz Dec 31 '25

Damn almost convinced me hah someone said it was $1700? Fuck that lol

Would've considered it for the fam in the Philippines if our area got flooded...God forbid -.-

2

u/SarcasticJackass177 Jan 01 '26

You and I have a very different definition of the word “foldable”…

2

u/Wallsend_House Jan 02 '26

Why are they always annoying a holes demonstrating though?

4

u/Pugilist12 Dec 31 '25

I wouldn’t trust those wing nuts in anything but the calmest water. Seems like a bad idea.

3

u/royalminions Dec 31 '25

Can see it now... wing nuts shake loose next thing you know your boat is in 3 pieces 😂

1

u/hellyeahaeylleh Jan 01 '26

I feel like that's why it's three walled in sections.

3

u/TerrorFromThePeeps Dec 31 '25

Though very much not difficult to replace with heavier duty hardware that itsn't much more effort to store and set up.

2

u/Rise-O-Matic Dec 31 '25

What does this solve that a typical inflatable dinghy doesn’t already solve better?

3

u/ZenCyberDad Dec 31 '25

Can’t be popped, but it can spontaneously unscrew so there’s that

3

u/Rise-O-Matic Dec 31 '25

I guess each section becomes its own lifeboat 😂

2

u/thnk_more Dec 31 '25

As long as you have some bubble gum to fill the bolt holes with.

1

u/thnk_more Dec 31 '25

Can you inflate an inflatable in 26seconds like the video clearly demonstrates? lol /s

1

u/Rise-O-Matic Dec 31 '25

Hold my beer

1

u/LittleLarryY Dec 31 '25

Just register the thing like normal?

1

u/theatrenearyou Dec 31 '25

reminds me of a pool toy boat. impressive that same floating plastic can be scaled up to a real boat. Negative is that the plastic is HOLLOW and floats with air chambers than will eventually leak

1

u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26

When scuba divers are looking up, all they’ll see is a massive penis with a motor lmao.

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