Windline TDL-4E Telescoping Removable Stainless Steel Pontoon Ladder

Great ladder. Hold my 225lbs. I use it in a pontoon boat. You do need to tie it to the boat while in use because if you go up it awkwardly you can pop it out of the mounting brackets and it can fall off.

Well I guess someone should have advised that this ladder is not very ADA compatible. The bottom step is to close to the top of the water. The angle is poor as it rests against the pontoon. And the ladder moves back and forth. Better make sure you have a rope on it in case it was to come out of the brackets. I would like to return this ladder for a different style if possible.

This ladder is an easy climber in or out of the water. I also bought the metal plates that go on top and bottom of pontoon.Makes climbing up or down the ladder very secure.

NICE

We are very happy with this ladder. It was not difficult to install. We especially like the Windline warranty. It looks like it will last very well.

This ladder worked great ... until the inevitable happened. (Inevitable, in my view, where many different people will be making use of it.)One of our guests, a not-heavy person, hung it backwards, not realizing that there are crucial ... I don't know what to call them ... bumpers that hold the ladder away from the side of the pontoon itself and keep the ladder vertical and a user's weight distributed properly. If you hang it turned around so that those bumpers point outward, there's nothing to keep a person's weight from pulling the ladder at an underhang slant, which in turn puts damaging stress on the points where the ends of the ladder's hooks lock into the slot thingies. And one of those cleats/bolts that goes into the slots bent and then broke off, and cannot be reattached. So, after one season of use, the ladder is now unuseable and has to be thrown away.And by the way, the ladder's design makes this mistake very easy to make by an uninitiated person, or a kid, because the hooks, which swing around inward so that it can be stored flat, swing with equal ease in both directions, making it possible to hang it up with the hooks turned to the wrong side. How hard would it have been to manufacture this ladder so that they could only swing in the proper direction? And/or to make the ladder so that it takes a lot more than just one single person (again, a small adult) hanging it the wrong-way-around to break it?I've no idea how long the ladder would have lasted otherwise, but this break revealed that there wasn't a whole lot keeping it on to begin with. Which isn't great, since that's one of two points that bears the brunt of users' weight.Since it broke from what the manufacturer would undoubtedly consider improper use, it was probably not returnable anyway, but we also no longer had the receipt and packaging. If you buy this ladder, I recommend keeping them.