BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - would like to build a low tide dock, or how do you get folks on your boat without a dock ?

On 8 May 2004 20:07:18 -0700, (MIKE) wrote:
Hello , we have a dock that is not accessable during low tide (about 3
hours twice a day). because of difficult regulation and costs our
beach association can not dredge the sand bar anymore.
we also are prohibited from moving our current dock.
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If you are on an exposed area of Long Island sound it will be
difficuly to build anything strong enough to make it through a storm -
think cheap and easily replacable. The folks up in Maine with so
called "tidal" waterfront do some creative things with floating dock
sections stretched out across the mud flats. They are usually wood
with foam flotation blocks, and positioned with chains and mooring
anchors of some sort.