Pontoon Boat Average Weight With Examples

Most of the people imagine that a boat, in order to float, has to be astonishingly light. However, any boat owner knows so well the pain of finding a truck with enough torque to tow their pontoon boat without getting its engine blown. As such, weight is a thing you need to take into account when buying a trailer and a truck for towing.

The average pontoon boat weighs around 2200 pounds (~1 metric ton) including the engine and it can hold around 2000 pounds (~900kg) of passengers, furniture, and whatever else you put on it. The trailer itself weighs around 1200 pounds (~550kg), so you need to take that into account as well.

If you want to buy a truck that can pull a pontoon boat with relative ease and generally with no danger for either vehicle, you should consider finding something with a towing capacity of 2500 pounds or so (~1200kg) more than the weight of the tow, i.e. the boat, the gear, and the trailer combined. Considering that these three items weigh together some 3600 pounds (~1600 kg) with an empty tank and an extra 185 pounds (~83kg) for 30 gallons of fuel, it would be advisable for you to get a truck that can tow 5500-6000 pounds (~2500-2700kg) in order to get maximum traction. Of course, pontoon boats do come in very different shapes and sizes, and you will have to find the best truck to fit your personal boat, but this is a good rule of thumb.

Here is a couple of examples of pontoon boats and how much they weigh, heaviest to lightest:

  • Suntracker Regency 254XP3 27’ takes the cake, with 3300 pounds dry hull (no trailer, no gear, no gas) and a ginormous 5600 pounds with trailer and motor
  • G3 Suncatcher 22′ X22RF, an extremely popular model, hits the 3500 pounds mark with trailer and motor
  • Avalon Catalina DRL 24’ falls just barely short, with some 3300 pounds for the same full package
  • Lowe SS210 20’ weighs 1860 pounds dry hull, with an 112hp engine
  • Sweetwater SW2086 22’ weighs 1770 pounds dry hull or 2450 pounds with trailer and all
  • Avalon Eagle 16’ weighs 1360 pounds dry hull
Jerry Brookes
 

Hi I'm Jerry, founder of PontoonHelper.com. I've been pontooning for over 30 years believe it or not and have learned a thing or two about pontoons. As my passion project Pontoon Helper is aimed at educating any reader on all the different things you need to know before pontooning. I consider myself somewhat of an expert in this industry as it has become my life since retirement. Feel free to submit a comment or question on the website and I'll try to get back to you.

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Tyler Johnson

Thanks for the info that a pontoon boat would weigh about a ton. I am considering picking one up that my family could use for water sports and fishing, and I would want to make sure that I could tow it with my truck. I’ll have to check my towing capacity to see if I could get a good pontoon boat.

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