Waterfront Safety Gear Archives

Best Dock Ladders for Easy Climb-Out

Trent Hollis · July 18, 2026

A corroded aluminum ladder with seized bolts cost my neighbor $340 to replace and took him out of the water for an entire weekend while we waited for the new one to arrive. The mounting hardware had worked loose sometime over the winter months, and nobody had thought to inspect it. That’s the moment I … Read more

The Safety Kit Every Dock Should Have — I Learned the Hard Way

Trent Hollis · June 29, 2026

The Safety Kit Every Dock Should Have — I Learned the Hard Way

Two decades of Gulf Coast dock work means I’ve watched countless beautiful installations go up—custom decking, built-in seating, underwater lighting—and I can count on one hand how many had safety equipment staged where it actually belonged. A near-tragedy on a Pensacola Bay renovation back in 2011 was the wake-up call that fundamentally shifted how I … Read more