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Pontoon Boat Product

Overview

A pontoon boat is a flat, open recreational craft that floats not on a single hull but on two or three sealed aluminium tubes, called logs or pontoons. The wide deck spanning those tubes gives the boat its character: a stable, level platform with room for furniture, a helm and a crowd, rather than the narrow cockpit of a monohull. Because the buoyancy sits far outboard at the tubes, the boat resists rolling and barely heels when people move around, which makes it the default choice for calm-water cruising, fishing and entertaining on lakes and rivers.

The structure starts with the Pontoon Tube Set (logs), welded buoyancy logs divided internally into watertight chambers. Across them sits the Crossmember Frame frame that carries the Deck, and the deck in turn supports the Railing & Fence fence and the Furniture. Power is hung off the reinforced Transom at the Outboard Motor Mount and controlled from the Steering Helm. Sun shade comes from the Bimini Top, and the systems aboard are fed by the Fuel System and the Electrical System harness.

How it works

Each pontoon tube displaces enough water to float its share of the boat and crew; the internal baffles split the tube into sealed sections so a single puncture floods only one chamber. Welded lifting strakes along the tubes act like small planing surfaces, lifting the logs and helping the boat turn under power. The outboard on the transom drives the boat forward and is steered by a cable from the helm wheel, which also carries the throttle and a digital gauge reading speed, fuel and engine data.

Gasoline flows from the portable tank through a water-separating filter to the outboard. The Electrical System system runs everything else off a single 12 V battery: navigation lights, the switch panel, the float-switched Bilge Pump that clears any water shipped aboard, and the Depth / Fish Finder, whose transom transducer pings the bottom and returns depth and fish echoes to a small display.

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Bill of materials

13 top-level lines · 69 rows shown · 138 parts total · indented to 3 levels
# Item / sub-assembly Part no. Qty/assy Ext. qty Parts Type
1 Pontoon Tube Set (logs) 5 parts pontoon-tube-set 1 13 assembly
1.1 Aluminium Pontoon Log pontoon-log 2 part
1.2 Nose Cone pontoon-nose-cone 2 part
1.3 Internal Baffle pontoon-baffle 6 part
1.4 Lifting Strake pontoon-lifting-strake 2 part
1.5 Fastener Set fastener-set 1 part
2 Crossmember Frame 3 parts pontoon-crossmembers 1 17 assembly
2.1 Aluminium Crossbeam pontoon-crossbeam 12× 12 part
2.2 M-Bracket pontoon-m-bracket 4 part
2.3 Fastener Set fastener-set 1 part
3 Transom pontoon-transom 1 part
4 Deck 3 parts pontoon-deck 1 8 assembly
4.1 Deck Panel pontoon-deck-panel 6 part
4.2 Marine Vinyl Flooring pontoon-floor-vinyl 1 part
4.3 Fastener Set fastener-set 1 part
5 Railing & Fence 3 parts pontoon-railing 1 11 assembly
5.1 Fence Panel pontoon-fence-panel 8 part
5.2 Boarding Gate pontoon-gate 2 part
5.3 Fastener Set fastener-set 1 part
6 Furniture 2 parts pontoon-furniture 1 29 assembly
6.1 Seat Assembly 5 parts seat-assembly 4 7 assembly
6.1.1 Seat Frame seat-frame 4 part
6.1.2 Seat Foam seat-foam 8 part
6.1.3 Seat Cover seat-cover 4 part
6.1.4 Seat Motor seat-motor 8 part
6.1.5 Seat Heater Mat seat-heater 4 part
6.2 Cockpit Table pontoon-table 1 part
7 Bimini Top 3 parts pontoon-bimini 1 3 assembly
7.1 Bimini Frame pontoon-bimini-frame 1 part
7.2 Bimini Canvas pontoon-bimini-canvas 1 part
7.3 Fastener Set fastener-set 1 part
8 Outboard Motor Mount 3 parts pontoon-motor-mount 1 3 assembly
8.1 Motor Bracket pontoon-motor-bracket 1 part
8.2 Tilt Mechanism pontoon-tilt-mechanism 1 part
8.3 Fastener Set fastener-set 1 part
9 Steering Helm 5 parts pontoon-helm 1 5 assembly
9.1 Steering Wheel pontoon-helm-wheel 1 part
9.2 Steering Cable pontoon-steering-cable 1 part
9.3 Throttle Control pontoon-throttle-control 1 part
9.4 LCD Panel lcd-panel 1 part
9.5 Helm Console pontoon-console 1 part
10 Fuel System 3 parts pontoon-fuel-system 1 3 assembly
10.1 Portable Fuel Tank pontoon-fuel-tank 1 part
10.2 Fuel Line & Primer Bulb pontoon-fuel-line 1 part
10.3 Water-Separating Filter pontoon-fuel-filter 1 part
11 Electrical System 4 parts pontoon-electrical 1 18 assembly
11.1 12 V Battery lv-battery 1 part
11.2 Wire Bundle wire-bundle 1 part
11.3 Navigation Light pontoon-nav-light 3 part
11.4 Switch Panel 3 parts pontoon-switch-panel 1 13 assembly
11.4.1 Bare PCB pcb-bare 1 part
11.4.2 Relay relay 4 part
11.4.3 Connector connector 8 part
12 Bilge Pump 3 parts pontoon-bilge-pump 1 23 assembly
12.1 Stator Assembly 3 parts stator-assembly 1 3 assembly
12.1.1 Stator Core (laminations) stator-core 1 part
12.1.2 Copper Winding copper-winding 1 part
12.1.3 Slot Insulation stator-insulation 1 part
12.2 Rotor Assembly 4 parts rotor-assembly 1 19 assembly
12.2.1 Rotor Shaft rotor-shaft 1 part
12.2.2 Rotor Core rotor-core 1 part
12.2.3 Neodymium Magnet neodymium-magnet 16× 16 part
12.2.4 Ball Bearing ball-bearing 1 part
12.3 Float Switch pontoon-float-switch 1 part
13 Depth / Fish Finder 4 parts pontoon-fish-finder 1 4 assembly
13.1 LCD Panel lcd-panel 1 part
13.2 Bare PCB pcb-bare 1 part
13.3 Microcontroller mcu 1 part
13.4 Sonar Transducer pontoon-transducer 1 part

Sourcing — likely vendors

Companies that make this · indicative price $2k–$500M · MOQ & lead are typical
VendorHQSpecialtyMOQLead time
🇰🇷HD Hyundai
hd.com ↗
Ulsan, KR Shipbuilder made to order 52–104 wks
🇮🇹Fincantieri
fincantieri.com ↗
Trieste, IT Shipbuilder made to order 52–104 wks
damen.com ↗ Gorinchem, NL Shipbuilder made to order 52–104 wks
🇺🇸Brunswick
brunswick.com ↗
Mettawa, US Marine & boats made to order 52–104 wks
🇨🇳CSSC
cssc.net.cn ↗
Shanghai, CN Shipbuilding conglomerate made to order 52–104 wks

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