Pontoons are planing hulls ftmp.

Pontoon boat with regular hull. Heres a closer look at the two most common kinds of multi-hull boats. The most obvious difference is the hull design. A pontoon boat is considered a flat-bottomed boat because its hull has a relatively shallow draft which generally makes it unsuitable for less than favourable conditions.

A cat hull as you describe can be a displacement hull. A bunch of peopleload. These pontoons are presented as the hull.

Instead of having two large aluminum tubes beneath the deck a tritoon has a third tube in the center that distributes weight even more evenly over the water. The problem I have found with them is that the increased surface on the water makes them somewhat rougher than the modified straked bottoms on the round-bottom or V-hull boats. The wide stance provides greater stability.

23-30 customizable fiberglass cladded boats with refined unparalleled elegance in 8 6 and 10 wide-beam widths with single or dual engine configurations. You can choose to install a premade mini hull yourself or you can pay for a professional to install a regular-sized hull onto your pontoon. Design speed would be somewhere in the 60 mph range.

Traditionally a pontoons original design intent applied to boating on sheltered freshwater like lakes and rivers. Pontoon Handling in the Ocean. There are two main options for adding another hull to your pontoon boat.

Unlike traditional Aluminum pontoon boats our catamaran style fiberglass hulls are molded with strakes and chines that allow our boats to lift up and glide above the waves that a regular pontoon boat will be welcoming onto their decks. Every boat is different but as a general rule of thumb pontoon boats tend to stay flat or bank out unlike the inward bank of a V-hull. But in general a pontoon is designed for what.