My wife was with me working on the boat on Thursday at our new marina. This
is our first year at this marina (we trailer the boat last year).

Taking a break from working on the boat she walked over to our new dock to
assess how easy it will be for her to step down to the dock from land (these
are drive up docks with a 6 inch step down from land to the dock). She
asked if I could assemble and install a support pole with a handle for her,
close to where you fist step down onto the dock. As most of you know she
wears a leg brace due to a debilitating and slowly degrading muscular
condition in her leg and is therefore not very stable. I asked her to
check with the office next time she drove up there to make sure it was OK,
which she did. Their response was "no problem".

Upon arriving at the boat yesterday I found that the marina had welded a
support pole with grab handle at our dock directly onto the seawall abutting
our dock. I certainly could not have done better.

I drove to the office and thanked the owner. I found out that the employee
who did the work has a brother (also working at the marina) who wears the
same type of brace as my wife due to a permanent muscle injury while playing
basketball.

Nice folks. I think we will like it here. ;-)