The walk out had gone before the dock did. A new aluminum-framed section was built in the shop, trailered in and set on the same line.
The shore end is almost always the part that goes first. It takes the wave action, it takes the runoff, and it spends half the year wet — while the outer section, sitting in deeper water, is often still perfectly sound. Replacing the whole dock in that situation is money spent on the part that did not fail.
The new section was framed and decked in the shop, then trailered in and carried down to the water. Building it off site means the disruption at the property is a day rather than a week, and the frame is welded on a flat floor instead of on a slope.
Getting there is its own part of the job. Cottage properties rarely have a straight run from the road to the water, so the last stretch comes down by ATV, panel by panel.
Framed and decked in place on open water, with the deck run wide enough to be a room rather than a walkway.
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