A pontoon boat is a great boat because of the square footage there is on the deck. They are flat boats and they stay afloat buy way of two or three aluminum cylinders. Back in the day about 40 years ago the first pontoon boat was constructed, they made the pontoons by welding together barrels. There was a couple of down side to this those, one that many of these barrels would contains oils, which would make it extremely difficult to weld them together. The other major disadvantage to this is that they would weigh a lot, which would mean you would need a powerful motor if you ever wanted to reach a decent cruising speed. Read More