Northern Ontario business builds floating saunas
CBC
What do you get when you cross a pontoon with a sauna?
A northeastern Ontario business owner has answered that question with a unique creation he calls the "sauntoon".
Daniel Cedolia owns Loonie Toons Pontoons and Powersports in Desbarats, around 50 kilometres southeast of Sault Ste. Marie.
Shortly after his business opened in 2014, he received a strange request from a customer. They wanted to have a sauna built on a pontoon boat.
Cedolia jumped at the opportunity to combine two northern Ontario pastimes. In 2015, his team built the first sauntoon.
"We built it as a double decker, so you could actually control the boat from the top deck and you could drive it like a boat," he said. "It's fully navigable with lights, a horn, a steering wheel and motors. It's a head turner for sure."
The first boat was such a success, Cedolia's company started work on a second sauntoon in 2018. By then the business had grown with a focus on selling new and used pontoons. They had less time to devote to their creative side project, so it took three years to complete the second one.
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