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 ...

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 ...

BRISTOL, Ind., March 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Barletta Boats today announced the launch of its newest model line, the Sanza, a thoughtfully simplified pontoon crafted for first-time owners and ...

The Poppell family is no stranger to innovation. It’s been the hallmark of their business for nearly 49 years. Now, they have created a completely new product. “We’ve been in the trailer business for ...

Fixing, sealing and strengthening Highway 520 bridge pontoons has cost at least $81.1 million, with more expenses ahead, the state has revealed. That work, the result of a state design team’s ...

Flaws in the design led to cracks during post-tensioning of the first four concrete pontoons built for the replacement of the world's longest floating bridge in Seattle, says the Washington State Dept ...

A poorly implemented project-delivery process that combined design-build and conventional design-bid-build created confusion that opened the door to faulty design work on the first four pontoons for ...

Despite the discovery of cracks in the first batch of pontoons produced for a new Highway 520 floating bridge, state Secretary of Transportation Paula Hammond said Friday she expects all six to be ...

Only a few months ago, Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP), said the company was leaving boats behind to focus on its PWC brand Sea-Doo. So what's up with this recent pontoon patent? The economics ...

In the central Vermont town of Brookfield (pop. 1,292), the world’s first floating fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge has replaced a 1978 version that carried state Route 65 traffic over Sunset ...

Washington State Department of Transportation officials admitted Tuesday a number of mistakes were made in the construction of pontoons for the new 520 bridge, and it’ll cost at least tens of millions ...