Barletta Pontoon Boats, a rapidly growing manufacturer and a subsidiary of Winnebago Industries, has won a 2025 Discover Boating Minneapolis Boat Show Innovation Award for its innovative helm design ...

Sometime between the era of your grandparents’ nightly putt-putt around the lake and the more recent trend of 20-somethings partying at the sandbar, pontoon boats became cool. Cool because whether you ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- If you go to the annual Boat Show looking for signs of the times perhaps this item will spark your interest: Despite all the gleaming new boats on display at the Minneapolis Convention ...

Balise, a new pontoon boat builder, launches today. It’s hard to imagine another pontoon boat maker offering a different experience given the number of pontoon boat brands from which boat buyers can ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Tom Riti of Port Royal, Virginia, built a pontoon boat from the ...

Winnebago Industries has patented a pontoon boat design with shock absorbers at connection points, double-webbed beams, and two-stage lifting strakes. This innovation aims to enhance stability and ...

There may have been a time when you visited the local lake and came across a boat that resembles a floating deck with a motor fixed to the back. If you are fortunate enough, you may have even perhaps ...

It would be easy to think Seattle-based electric marine propulsion producer Pure Watercraft is just another “startup” looking to “disrupt” conventional, fossil-fuel-powered outboard motor technology ...

Canadian electric propulsion specialist Vision Marine continues to graduate beyond advanced outboard motors into a provider of all-electric boats. This month, Vision introduced two new electric ...

Winnebago is expanding its boating business, paying nine figures to some old friends — including one of its own executives. The Forest City-based manufacturer announced Tuesday morning that it will ...

Pontoon boats are different from traditional v-hull boats because they have not one but two or more hulls. This makes them more stable in the water and theoretically easier to manage. For these ...