Playcraft 2700

2010 PLAYCRAFT 2700, Pontoon and Deck Boat (PDB) magazine hosted a Pontoon Boat Shootout on Sept. 28-30, 2009 at Percy Priest Lake, near Nashville, Tennessee. The purpose of this shootout is an annual event of boat tests to rate pontoons with the highest speed, performance and handling. This is in response to the latest trend in the pontoon industry which is performance. Performance pontoons are one of the fastest growing entities in the marine market. Local businessman and boat enthusiast Terry Kuchenberg, who owns Midwest Boats Sales and Repair, 6818 Streeter Rd., Cedar Falls, Iowa, participated. Kuchenberg ran a 2010 model 27 PlayCraft X-Treme Pontoon with a Mercury Verado 350Hp outboard motor at the shootout. Kuchenberg, using his experience of designing and manufacturing high performance boats in the 1980 s, worked with PlayCraft to design this pontoon to perform at top-end speed and performance. He continues to work with PlayCraft on an on-going basis, always trying to improve upon an already impressive pontoon product. Over 27 pontoon manufacturers sent their highest performance pontoons to compete. Kuchenberg placed first in the Fastest Single Engine Production Pontoon Boat Speed category with his PlayCraft pontoon, showing an impressive 60.7mph. This year the Shootout also hosted the McKainer Pontoon Barrel Race. There were four categories in the barrel race: pontoons with Inboard/Outboard engines; pontoons with outboard engines with power ranging from 225Hp and up; pontoons with outboard engines with power ranging from 175-200Hp; and pontoons with outboard engines with power ranging from 135-150Hp. All pontoons were production models. Kuchenberg also ran his PlayCraft in this barrel race and was the champion in the 225Hp and up category. Besides coming home with the McKainer PDB 2009 Barrel Race 225Hp+ Champion trophy and bragging rights of having won the fastest single engine production pontoon boat speed category, he will also be featured in an upcoming issue of Pontoon & Deck Boat magazine. Kuchenberg in front of his 2010 model 27 PlayCraft X-Treme pontoon w/350Hp Mercury Verado outboard motor (that he ran at the Shootout and barrel race) with his barrel race trophy.

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