After Dad bought his big (lovely lovely) pontoon boat, he decided he needed to ameliorate the dock situation at the cottage. Many moons ago, the cottage had two docks, connected by a section of dock that ran along the shoreline forming a big U shape. But the older of the two sections rotted out and was removed by the former owners, leaving us with just one dock. (It's currently sitting in the wood pile next to the fire pit).
The way the prevailing winds blow at the cottage, you want to tie your boat up so that the wind is pushing it away from the dock. Less bashing and smashing, etc. With just the one dock and two boats, this was impossible.
While we were away at a dance competition, Mom and Dad stayed at the cottage and did some fix ups. Dad built himself a new dock while mom worked on their room (the guest room) THANK YOU!!
After the initial build, Dad decided the dock wasn't quite long enough, so later in the week he came out with a couple of prefabricated sections that the Captain helped him to install.
The water was a balmy 83C (sorry, when it comes to water temperatures I'll forever be stuck in the land of Fahrenheit) so they weren't exactly suffering.
The panels slid together like they were meant to go that way! So clever.
And now, the kids have another nice, long dock from which they can cowabunga into the water.
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