DIY Dock Bumpers and Cleats That Survived a Hurricane Season
Trent Hollis · July 18, 2026
Check your dock cleats first thing when you walk the structure in daylight. Not the bumpers — the cleats. Because cleats fail before bumpers do, and a failed cleat during surge means your boat owns the dock until something gives. Twenty years working marine construction along the Gulf Coast taught me to read a cleat … Read more
