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Pontoon raft definition. A pontoon is a flotation device with buoyancy sufficient to float itself as well as a heavy load. A watertight float or vessel used where buoyancy is required in water as in supporting a bridge in salvage work or where a temporary or mobile structure is required in military operations. Headwaters Marine is a small local business out of Vancouver WA that builds premium catarafts from a fishermans perspective.

Although there are cross-over boat types that blur this definition rafts are usually kept afloat by using any combination of buoyant materials such as wood sealed barrels or inflated air chambers such as pontoons and are typically not propelled by an engine. Its concept is shown in Fig. There are three primary types of pontoon designs used on current pontoon boats.

In leaving the pontoon for the offing the various craft increase in size as the water deepens. A floating structure serving as a dock. A floating pontoon or barge a hovercraft or underwater submersible a fishing trawler charter boat or houseboat a car or passenger ferry.

It is the most basic of boat design characterized by the absence of a hull. A raft supporting a house-like structure is a houseboatA fixed platform can be used as a dock. The upper limit of what is possible in a commercial raft.

A flat-bottomed boat or portable float used in building a floating temporary bridge. A flat-bottomed boat such as a lighter especially. All Escape Swim Rafts include a premium aluminum pivoting ladder and Escape Swim Rafts are available in your choice of.

A float often inflatable for raising a vessel in the water. The founder born and raised in the Vancouver area has spent his entire life fishing and floating various rivers in the Pacific NW and wanted to create a vessel that would work for every type of fishingfloating. The buoyancy of the supports limits the maximum load they can carry.