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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

DIY Dock Bumpers and Cleats That Survived a Hurricane Season

Trent Hollis · July 18, 2026

DIY Dock Bumpers and Cleats That Survived a Hurricane Season

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