Deck boats typically have a V-shaped hull, while a pontoon boat will have two or three tubes, or “pontoons,” that support it. The pontoons can be anything suitable, such as old, discarded barrels, ...

A Racine County plant that once made Evinrude outboard boat motors has been repurposed to build a line of pontoon boats with a customizable deck and controls similar to a Sea-Doo personal watercraft.