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http://www.kickboat.com/

Not a "pontoon" design, but, I love mine.

You won't find a better personal
craft for rivers, including very rough water, or one more honestly portable.

How would you know? See below.

I
bought a pontoon boat first and never got the damn thing
together the first time before I returned it ... if you have to fight with
frames and tools and little pieces and then keep it assembled and strapped
on top your car ... it ain't portable G

You never got it together and yet claim it isn't portable? Following
your logic, I've never put together a F-16 so they must suck as well.
I have packed a pontoon boat on my back up to a high mountain lake,
thrown them in the back of a truck, strapped them to vehicles and
never had problems with them being portable. It all depends on your
motivation I guess.....

I would advise against a raft like Larry suggests. I have used one
before and thought a pontoon was much, much better. You sit higher
in a pontoon and can cast more easily, you don't drag as much, you
have more storage, you can maneuver the craft more easily, have more
storage if you get one that has a rear deck, can mount an anchor that
is more functional and so on. There are far more advantages to a
pontoon boat than a raft IMO. While a raft may not blow as much as a
pontoon boat, they sure aren't as easy to control in the wind. I
have rowed rafts, boats, pontoons, used float tubes and one of those
raft contraptions that Larry posted a link for. For a personal
watercraft, a pontoon boat wins IME.

If you want to try one of those rafts, go buy a cheap one person
raft, cut a section out of the floor (assuming that the air chambers
are not connected, which most are not) and give it a shot. You can
make a seat out of some sheets of thick polystyrene to raise you up.
Then borrow or rent a pontoon boat and compare the two. I am sure
you will chuck the raft and go with a pontoon after trying both.
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