Pontoon & Deck Boat

The premier issue of Pontoon & Deck Boat magazine first hit mailboxes back in 1995 as a quarterly publication and we're proud to say it’s been growing ever since. In 2025 we're celebrating 30 years as the number one authority on pontoon and deck boats after our humble beginnings as both a magazine and a publishing company.

In the basement of his home in 1971, Darryl Harris started Harris Publishing and served as PDB’s first editor. Back then the thought of producing a magazine on deck boats and those boxy, extremely non-nautical-looking and non-performance-minded pontoon boats had other employees in-house snickering around the water cooler. With successful magazine titles at Harris Publishing focused on the agricultural and snowmobiling industries, few could see the vision or the potential of PDB magazine.