So I've been promising more pictures, and believe me, more are sure to come. Here is the dock before. It was really in sore shape. Notice the before pictures with the pilings that are leaning, and are rectangular (normally pilings are round). Some we could see through, of course I didn't get good pictures of that.And the dock was pretty small before. We definitely couldn't fit a table out there, and we were worried about falling in the canal all the time, since it was small. And of course, there was the time that the dock collapsed on one end and two people actually did end up in the salt-water.
Now, these are terrible, but it shows the old dock removed, and the new pilings going in.
Now here is a picture of all the pilings installed.
You can see it is getting much larger! This is the day they were starting to install the lift.
We changed the layout and now the boat faces the other way. But it gives us much easier access. Before it was a 2-person job to ease the boat out of the slip. We had to back out and make a turn at the same time. Now we can get straight out.
And here it is in all the glory...with our used lift we got for $2K :) -- thanks RoxyinRed!
Now it is also higher, so this doesn't happen again (Tropical Storm Fay Fall 2008):
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Jenny Rottinger | February 8, 2010 at 12:54 PM
awsome! I'm so jealous you get to live in warm area and right on the watter! Do you go diving on your boat?
Rebecca | February 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM
Jenny - well, I don't have my scuba certification, we normally go fishing. but i want to scuba soon. my dreams are the barrier reef.