Need Ideas for a dock layout?
 

I would like to have a dock at my parents lake house for my boat. If you can describe or show pictures of your dock that would be great. Right now I have a 25' Baja and would like to at some point upgrade to a 30 to 35' boat and stop there.

Thank you, Nick

Floating dock or on pilings?????

On pilings that I can move out of water for winter time. Like a sectional dock. Were not allowed to have a permanent dock that stays in the water year round. It can't be a dock with wheels simply because their is a hill. Luckily we have steps that lead to the top of the hill. When you start going on the steps you go right and the steps gradually angle up to the hill.

first things first... have you bought a stripper pole and jacuzzi for the dock yet?

No that would be funny though.

Ratman is not joking, Captain Nick....

Sommerfliesby, a striper pole and Jacuzzi would be awesome. I just wonder how the neighbors reaction would be though. I don't have any problems with the neighbors at all.

To hell with the neighbors. The men will most likely love it and women hate it.

We bought the connect a dock system and you can lay it out in any configuration you want. It comes in 4 x 8 foot sections and basically connect the sections together with socket set. We drive in poles to hold dock in position. We have 7 4x8 foot sections and laid them out in T shape. 3 sections going out and 8 foot by 16 foot section at the end. It goes in and out very easy and I like the system overall. I don't leave my boat tied here just for day use because we have a boathouse with lift. If I were going to leave my boat tied up all the time I would do a U shape at the end of the dock to keep boat secure tied off both sides so waves and other boat traffic would not affect it.

Chris, I would like to get a boat lift as well. I would not want my boat to sit in the water all the time. It's not good for it. Thank you for mentioning about your dock. That's awesome how you can store your boat in the boathouse.

Ok let me get this straight. You want a dock on pilings because you can't have permanent. Pilings kinda makes it permanent. You also need to be able to drag it up a hill and a lift? Sounds like concessions are gonna need to be made. What Chris described with maybe an air dock in the middle sounds like it would be closest to fitting the criteria still a pain in the ass to move.

This dock thing sounds to difficult, let us know when you get the stripper pole.

I should've been more clear wooden post and not piling. With the boatlift there's a marina that picks up and drops off your boat lift with there boat. The path with the steps are definetly wide enough for 4' wide sections. In fact when our current dock gets taken out we have 5 4x8 sections all stacked up next to each other on the path. We have the professionals move the dock into and out of the water when we need it to be.

So what's wrong with how you currently have it set up? And, for the record, pictures would probably tell a better story... Also...perhaps some mention of how much you are willing/able to spend? Depth of the water? Plans for actually stabilizing the stripper pole?

The problem with the current set up is that you can only have one boat at the dock. It only goes out 24' with a parallel spot of 12' to dock my boat at which I was just able to do.. I would like to have there at least be able to have two boats at the dock. Also the dock is starting to fall apart. All the more reason to have a new dock. From 16' to 40' from the shore it goes from 3' to 6' deep. 24' from shore is 5' deep. No plans for the stripper pole sorry about that. I have awesome neighbors up there and would like to keep it that way. I would like to have a bench on the dock. So yes to add to it the dock is too small. I don't know how to work windows 8 to upload the photos sorry.

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Thinking outside the box, you say you are on a hill, could you drive a crane to a location where it could lift a decent sized dock complete into the water?

No I'm looking to have 4x 8 sections for the dock. Most likely the installers will be carrying the sections down the path which do have steps. and a railing. So yes the path is wide enough for the sections. The driveway is about 30' from the path. So it's a straight shot for them.

Lots of Ideas Here Nick
 

Click around this website for some ideas.

https://www.summersetmarine.com/

What lake are you on?

I have had a Hewitt roll a dock for the past 7 years that works great.2 32' docks hinged together that I hook my truck to and pull out every year. Also a 10' section hinged to our sea wall that attaches to the dock as well. Many configurations available, love the easy in and out compared to building the dock every year.

Building our house was a nightmare but well worth it now. We had to excavate about 400 to 500 dump truck loads to dig into the hill and riverbank. Here is a picture of the dock and the house.[ATTACH=CONFIG]520269[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]520270[/ATTACH]

Chris, what an awesome looking boathouse. You also have the cottage attached. I'm looking more towards an L shaped dock that's what I have it narrowed down to.

That will work out great and the lift is key in my opinion then your safe! Good luck.

Yes especially a lift I would not want my boat to sit in the water all summer long. I also figured to a bench would be nice to have on the dock. I have one of two options for the L shaped dock. Either have it go out 32' from shore and have that section be 4' wide, then the attached would be 32' off to one side with an 8' depth for the dock section. My boat would be on the width of the dock on a lift. So the overall width would be 36'. The other option would be to go 40' from shore with a 4' wide section. The attach a 24' wide section that is 8' deep. The my boat would be on the lift on the length of the dock.

Either should work well. Connect a dock does make a bench that goes on dock the last time I checked. The dock is held in place with steel poles but there are various options to secure it depending on the river/ lake bottom.

I would do the simplest configuration to start with and if you decide to do it different the next season you can always add more sections has needed. It is a pricy dock system but I have been pleased with it. The worst part is taking the poles out at the end of the season. The dock sections themselves are about 200 lbs each so two people can move them.