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04-06-2016 | 11:43 AM

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Perlmudder

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From: Toronto, Ontario

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Originally Posted by SLT Kota

The only issue with concrete buckets is that they can slide on the bottom (not much surface area dragging when they fall over) but you can always keep adding more until it held.

Anytime we have white caps they come from the same direction and the dock was up-wind of the boat so it did most of the "holding" of the boat.

Water depth was never an issue here but it is something to keep in mind.

Another option for this to avoid the sliding buckets is a flat piece of steel. We have a 2'x4' inch and a half plate of steel with holes water jet in it. Drop it on the bottom, in a couple of days it is completely burried and it is not moving. I got it for $40 from a fab shop and it was scrap. Never had it move or drag in years.

04-06-2016 | 12:14 PM

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buck35

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From: rock Island wa

I have a floating dock held in place by cross chains , we got ahold of a couple concrete vault lids . Nice thing is they have rebar handles cast in for tie offs.