Alignment guide for pontoon boat lift

Apparatus comprising:

• a pontoon boat having a pair of laterally spaced pontoon floats supporting a deck;
• a motor operably mounted to a rear portion of the deck and disposed to extend down below the floats;
• a frame having a front and a rear;
• vertically moveable transverse support beams attached at the front and rear of the frame, the support beams being moveable between a lowered position to load, and a raised position to lift the boat out of a body of water;
• vertical supports operably attached to and extending up from the movable support beams;
• an alignment guide including a pair of laterally spaced rails, the rails being generally horizontally disposed and spaced apart at a distance corresponding to spacing between the pontoon floats;
• and
• wherein the rails are operatively attached to the vertical supports and disposed at a selected fixed elevation above a waterline of the pontoon floats and below the deck when the support beams are in the lowered position, whereby the rails capture and guide the pontoon floats as the pontoon boat advances toward a full forward position, while limiting movement of the pontoon boat with respect to port and starboard.