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(nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge

a float supporting a seaplane

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A layby is being created nearby to improve access to the park and the pontoon which was installed last year as part of a bid to boost use of the River Forth.
One said: "pontoons were used to link the platform with the shore and diggers were along them morning to start work and back onto the beach in the afternoon.
Moorings were wrecked and pontoons broke free of the river-banks to float freely with their moored boats, creating a danger downstream.
Just change out the existing helicopter skids for the Redneck Pontoons grips, strap on some empty 16 oz.
Carriage bolts (1 1/2-inch) were installed in the tops of the pontoons with their threads projecting upward for securing the blind platform.
All of the other work has been completed and we are now moving onto the installation of the pontoons," said Dundar.
Additionally, Damen Pontoons & Barges has started building a second new design: the Damen Crane Barge (CBa) 6324, a transshipment barge for handling dry bulk and container operations.
Luxury yachts will soon be drifting into the heart of Newcastle after floating pontoons were approved for the River Tyne.
Some pontoons offer an upper deck or a soft Bimini, which makes a perfect roof from which to hang professionally made side curtains or, in a pinch, tarps.
Glasgow-based Scottish Galvanizers, part of Wedge Group Galvanizing, was called upon to provide its hot dip galvanizing treatment to approximately 85 tonnes of steelwork used to build two pontoons that will enable a new passenger service to run from Govan across the River Clyde.
A series of 22 new floating pontoons coming in three different sizes at Salthouse Dock will moor up to 44 boats when the link up opens this spring.
Their design included an 8-foot-by-10-foot platform held afloat by two basket-type pontoons containing plastic jugs (milk or laundry detergent).
Aluma-Weld has patented a system of interlocking aluminum planks that form the deck of each Veranda boat, and these aluminum planks are welded to each other and directly to the two or three pontoons underneath.
The floating roof consisted of 38 hollow pontoons that provide buoyancy to allow the roof to float on the surface of the oil as the tank is emptied or filled.