2022 Barletta Cabrio 22UC — Fair Haven, MI

A 2022 Barletta Cabrio 22UC at Fair Haven, Michigan, asking $55,000 through Temptation Yacht Sales. Barletta is the pontoon segment's fast riser — founded in 2017 at Bristol, Indiana by Bill Fenech of Grand Design RV, and sold to Winnebago in 2021 as the fastest-growing builder in the segment. The Cabrio range is the yard's entry door, introduced for 2022, and the trade press's consistent line on it is that the entry boat carries the fittings of the lines above. This hull is from the range's first season.

The 22UC is the Ultra-Lounge layout — aft swingback lounger, co-captain's chair beside the helm — the layout Barletta's dealers call their best seller. It is exactly what it looks like: a 22-foot outboard day boat for a lake, drawn for people rather than passages. One honesty note: we hold no sister ship, so we cannot say whether $55,000 is keen for a four-season-old 22UC.

What the shelf does say is that this is serious pontoon money, and the powerboat shelf prices the alternatives plainly. The only other pontoon we hold, a 2023 Sun Tracker Party Barge 20 DLX in Minnesota, is the same idea at half the money — a year newer, two feet shorter, far plainer:

Where the same money wants speed instead of lounge space, the 2021 Chaparral 21 SSI OB at Sebastian, Florida is the sport-boat door, $500 over:

And if $55,000 is really about room on the water, the 2008 Regal 2860 Window Express at Winthrop Harbor, Illinois buys seven more feet and a cabin for $5,000 less — at the price of fourteen years:

But if the brief is the lounge deck itself, nearly new, from the yard the rest of the segment is chasing — this is the one to survey first: