I am sure this topic has been brought up before, but I searched and came up with nothing. I think this is the year that my father finally puts a new dock/boat lift in at his home on Rush Lake. Right now he has one section of steel roll in dock. That he puts onto the bow of his small row boat, and floats the thing onto the lake, cranks the wheels down into the muck, and all is done. The big problem is that he is only in about 12 inches of water when it get dry in the summer time. I refuse to bring my boat to his dock, and he has a newer pontoon that he is trying not to destroy. I think he needs to add about 30 feet to his current dock to get to deep enough water to be useable. The problem is the muck, I can take a fence post (metal), and push it all the way into the muck. I am thinking the only option is a floating dock? Is this the only option? What are good brands, bad brands? I know nothing about docks since I have never lived on a lake. I told him to go to the boat show, but you know how fathers listen to their sons .
Also, anyone know how the ratings work on boat lifts? I have a Ranger reata 1850, and am guessing it would weigh in at 3000 pounds loaded. I am assuming that the weights on lifts are total weight of the boat, how about people that would load while boat is on the lift?
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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I am sure this topic has been brought up before, but I searched and came up with nothing. I think this is the year that my father finally puts a new dock/boat lift in at his home on Rush Lake. Right now he has one section of steel roll in dock. That he puts onto the bow of his small row boat, and floats the thing onto the lake, cranks the wheels down into the muck, and all is done. The big problem is that he is only in about 12 inches of water when it get dry in the summer time. I refuse to bring my boat to his dock, and he has a newer pontoon that he is trying not to destroy. I think he needs to add about 30 feet to his current dock to get to deep enough water to be useable. The problem is the muck, I can take a fence post (metal), and push it all the way into the muck. I am thinking the only option is a floating dock? Is this the only option? What are good brands, bad brands? I know nothing about docks since I have never lived on a lake. I told him to go to the boat show, but you know how fathers listen to their sons
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Also, anyone know how the ratings work on boat lifts? I have a Ranger reata 1850, and am guessing it would weigh in at 3000 pounds loaded. I am assuming that the weights on lifts are total weight of the boat, how about people that would load while boat is on the lift?
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