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| Docks
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Cabin
Life Designing and assembling a dock is a lot like putting together a train track or race car set. Except, where are the curvy dock pieces? Well, the curvy dock pieces have arrived. The days of only L-shaped and T-shaped docks are long past. Docks have even gone beyond the U-shape (which, after all, is only two Ls put together). We have now entered the era of the shapely, sexy, curvy dock - and lakeshores and river banks will never look the same. And the curvy dock is not the only innovative product on the market that can take your dock beyond 90 degrees. Check our corner cutters and 45-degree fingers too.
Curvy Docks The curviest dock innovation comes from ShoreMaster, and it is actually called the Curvie Dock. It's 4-foot-wide sections, with either 45- or 90-degree angles, allow for rounded flowing designs. The curving dock serves both practical and aesthetic purposes. You can lay your dock out to skirt weed beds, avoid trees or go around a big rock. You can match the contour of the walkway from the cabin to the shore. The key is that you're not constrained by the tired old formula: that the shortest distance between point A and point B is a straight line. Curvie Dock sections also can be used to create a round 8-foot or 12-foot waterfront platform - like an on-the-water patio. Take the 12-foot "patio" a step further by planting a screened-in gazebo on it. Corner Cutters Spend enough time on docks, and you're bound to see people - especially kids - and even a dog or two tumble off the dock and into the drink. This is pretty common on the inside of a dock corner. But fill in the corner and you can eliminate a few dock mishaps. That's the genius of the corner cutter (also called corner wedge or dock wedge). Safety isn't the only reason for the corner wedge. It totally opens up the usable space of the sundeck area, providing extra space you can use for not only sunning, but fishing or staging water sports. 45-degree Fingers There's cutting corners, and then there's adding corners. A 45-degree finger dock section adds corners, but it also adds visual interest and a different way to dock boats. Available for both left-side and right-side attachments, the 45-degree sections can be used to form a dogleg (pictured) or a Y-shaped dock. From a practical standpoint, a 45-degree section is a great place to locate a boatlift or two. As with typical, 90-degree section, people will put a boat and/or PWC lift on each side of the angled section. But the beauty of the 45-degree orientation is that it pulls the lifts away from shore, opening up a nice area for swimming. Ernest
Lorensson, who still has his Lionel train set from his fifth Christmas,
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