A double decker hillbilly dock!!
Most of the docks in my cove are brand new aluminum double decker with multiple boat docks and lifts, except mine!
Mine is a simple 16wx12d wood deck with floats underneath.
For shade, I put up a galvanized pole system that I can attach a tarp to when the family needs shade.
Works fine but definitely looks out of place.
Well, I have decided to double down.
Going to build an 8wx12d deck about dead center and 8' above the existing 16wx12d.
Primary use is for shade, but also for launching drunken belly flops.
Picture shows hillbilly dock, hillbilly deck, and cabin in progress.
Couple of issues:
1. Dock gets grounded in the winter and I need to build the upper portion pretty strong. Ground is sloped, but single sloped (no ruts, or boulders, etc). As water level fluctuates, I have to manually adjust the winches and lift the gangway up/dn the stairway. Planning on adding wheels and a float under the gang way and allowing dock to rest on the flat part of the channel during winter. Eventually get a longer gangway and keep the dock stationary above the channel, but those things are like $100 a foot (x~40'). Gangway would be worth more than the dock!
2. Concerned with the buoyancy of the existing floats. They only submerge about 2" with the existing dock, so adding half a deck above should only submerge them about 2" more worse case?
Any thoughts?