Pontoon corner caps offer a great level of protection to your deck, with some housing LED lights, hooks, or simply covering up the ugly and sharp joins on your deck corners. But unfortunately, they are prone to damage, being torn off, cracked, or simply being lost and needing to be replaced.
Thankfully there are a number of different websites where you can pick up replacement pontoon corner casting, whether you need plastic, rubber, or aluminum deck corner caps.
In this short guide, I am going to examine some of the online stores where can buy a replacement pontoon deck corner cap, so you know where to go to buy new brackets to cover over the ugly and sharp looking edge on your boat’s deck.
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Understanding Pontoon Boat Corner Caps and Casting Brackets
Pontoon boat corner caps and casting brackets play huge roles in maintaining your boat’s structural integrity and protecting it from potential damage.
Below is more info on pontoon boat corner caps and casting brackets, their purpose and importance.
What are Pontoon Boat Corner Caps?
Corner caps are protective fittings designed to cover the exposed corners of pontoon boats, right where the railing and deck meet. Typically, corner caps are made from materials like aluminum, stainless steel, or durable plastic.
Corner caps have two purposes. First, they protect against water ingress, which can lead to corrosion and damage to your boat over time.
Second, they protect your boat’s corners from impact damage, like when docking or navigating tight spaces.
Additionally, corner caps provide a clean, finished appearance to your pontoon boat, improving its overall aesthetics.
What are Casting Brackets?
Casting brackets are essential structural components used to connect your pontoon boat’s deck to the pontoons. They’re also referred to as corner brackets or risers, and are typically made from sturdy materials, like aluminum.
Casting brackets ensure a secure connection between your boat’s deck and pontoons. They play a vital role in your boat’s stability and weight distribution, which is why they’re critical for your boat’s performance and safety.
Pontoon Corner Casting on Amazon
Amazon is my preferred retailer for pontoon accessories for a number of reasons. Firstly, I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have an Amazon account already, so it’s simple and easy just to go there, find what you need, and check-out. If you have a Prime membership, you can also get stuff delivered sometimes inside of 24 hours.
Secondly, Amazon always have a very wide range of boat accessories, but when it comes to pontoon boat deck corner caps, this is where they aren’t so good.
In fact, I was quite surprised at the limited stock available online.
I could only find three aluminum boat corner caps available to buy, all of which I have listed below:
- Jif Marine Corner Casting (for port side of deck)
- Jif Marine Corner Casting (for starboard side of deck)
- Jif Marine Large Corner Casting (pack of 2)
The products listed above are only for curved and radius corners, so might not be suitable if you need to fit casting to square corners. Go take a look anyway, read the reviews, and decide whether or not these will fit your boat.
Corner Caps on Pontoon Specialist
This is definitely my preferred online shop for pontoon boat corner caps, simply due to the massive range that they have in stock. You can see a screenshot of just some of their stock in the image below.
This website has a massive range with all configurations taken care of so you should be able to find what you need.
On their website you can choose from over 20 different aluminum, rubber, and plastic pontoon corner caps, in different sizes, configurations, and prices. And their prices are good too.
They even sell brackets, caps, and castings for specific pontoon brands such as a pair for Avalon pontoon boats.
With free shipping on orders over $250, a customer support phone line, 30 day returns policy, and a very good reputation with pontooners for excellence, they are a great choice. They even now accept PayPal which can mean a quicker checkout with no need for you to enter in your credit card details when you shop.
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Corner Casting & Caps on Pontoon Stuff
If you can’t find what you need on Amazon or Pontoon Specialist, then your last port of call could be to take a look at the range on offer at Pontoon Stuff. Again, they are a highly regarded online store for pontooners, and have stock available to buy now.
This website organizes their stock into radius and square categories making it easier to find what you need.
Whilst the range isn’t as wide as the Pontoon Specialist website, they do have an easier way of sorting and presenting their caps and brackets, as they are separated out into square and radius curved models making your selection process easier.
They also have a low-price guarantee and say that if you can find a product cheaper on a competitor website, they will price match it or credit you back within 14 days of purchase. They also have better shipping terms, with free delivery on orders over $50. You can also checkout with PayPal to make things easier in some cases.
With a toll-free number, if you can’t find what you need then you can phone them up to talk to a friendly sales person, who should be an expert in pontoon boats, if not an owner already themselves.
To go view their current stock, visit their website on:
How to Fit Pontoon Corner Caps
One of the more common issues that boat owners will face when looking to replace their pontoon boat corner casting is that they only need to replace one and not all, as it’s only a singular corner of the brackets that will be lost or damaged.
With older boat models, whether an Avalon, Bentley, Sweetwater, Sun Tracker, or other brands you even might find it hard to locate an exact match for your existing corner bracket.
In cases such as this, my advice is to replace them all. That way you can buy enough to fit all corners, and they will all match up and you won’t have any odd and out of place looking corners on the deck.
But how do you replace and fit them?
It’s actually relatively simple and straight forward.
Fitting new pontoon boat corner caps is simple due to the pre-drilling mounting hole that you simply bolt or screw through into the deck.
With almost all pontoon boat plastic corner caps or aluminum casting, they will come with pre-drilled mounting holes in them which will let you drill straight through into the wooden deck.
In fact, I have never seen a corner cap that doesn’t come with a pre-drilled hole already in it, so you just need to position the casting in place, and then bolt or screw them straight in.
You might find that on older pontoon boats you will need to modify the plywood deck edge if the radius of the pontoon corner caps is too small. It’s not a hard job but will require a little cutting, sanding, or extending the area in which you bolt through.
They are very simple to fit I promise you and will create a great finishing touch that looks clean and tidy on your pontoon deck.
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