Help Building Floating Dock

[leechlake]

We have a dock at my dad's place that is about 110 feet long. We pulled out the old dock and we've replaced the first 60 feet with a permanent dock and now want to finish the rest with a floating dock 50 feet long. That last part of the dock always flooded from time to time so rather than have to deal with that we will make it floating. Also the dock does stay in year round since it is situated on a lake that has a small river on it so it stays open all year long for the most part. This system has worked for over 50 years, we probably will haul the floating sections in every fall though.

I bought 16 floats from Manards so we can do that and also make a floating platform once we have the dock done. The floats are 3'x4' and 10" high. They are rated for 500 pounds. My thought is to build 4 12' sections that are approximately 3' wide and have a float on each end of the 12' section and nothing in the middle of the section. My initial thought was to box the floats in under 2x6 or 2x8 stringers but have seen some things where you'd actually build the dock sections on top of the whole float. We would then pound pipe in and attach some hardware so the dock sections stay in place.

Anyone have experience with making such a dock. In a perfect world we'd like to make it at my house in the Cities and haul it up there. I have a pond in my backyard so after making the first section we can bring it down there and test it out.

[delcecchi]

Didn't you already post this somewhere?

Found it.. Open Water.

Probably ought to pick one or the other.