[Sidenote: III 60-64]
In order to send the pontoon across, oars or a sprit sail can be used.
The boat is then steered with an oar. Instead of using a pontoon with a
movable bridge at each end, a “Halve Pont” (half pontoon) is the more
generally in service. This is a boat with the bow of an ake and the
stern of a pontoon. Sometimes this half pontoon is called a “Pijper”.
Vehicles come an board the ferry over the stern and must leave in the
same way. The vehicles must go ashore backward as they cannot turn end
for end on the boat itself.
If the current of the river be strong enough, it is utilized to carry
the ferry back und forth by means of a cable. It is needless to say
that large pontoons with a movable part at each end are used for the
purpose.