floating docks

[dagibbs]

I spent most of today at the cottage with my parents, my sister, and my niece. (My niece is very cute.) In the conversation, my mom mentioned reading in, she thought, Cottage Life that [edit]mobile[/edit] floating docks were thought to have originated on Lac Sam, and to be spreading from there. Maybe that's why I'm used to them, and everyone else finds them a strange phenomenon.

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[kgkofmel.livejournal.com]

Floating docks? As in a dock that is tethered to the shore but does not have piers to the lake bed? Or as in a dock that has a near-shore section with piers that has a connecting away-from-shore section that doesn't?

Floats on oil drums, or plastic bottles?

I think my grandpa had such a dock on Black Lady Lake in the 60s, and probably in the 50s as well. It bobbed up and down when walked on, and made the most amazing sounds. The two different parts of the dock sounded different, too.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

As in a dock that is not tethered to the shore, but has a motor on one end, and cruises up and down the lake.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Often with picnic tables, and awnings, and BBQs and dogs, and everything, just like on an ordinary dock. But mobile.

[kgkofmel.livejournal.com]

Me, I would call that a barge.

[ragnhildr.livejournal.com]

Does she know how many hit points a motorized floating gazebo has?

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

I'm sure she doesn't. But, it would clearly depend on the level -- because floating docks definitely come in different experience levels. Apparently there is even one that has so many exerience points, it has grown a 2nd story!

[elizilla]

At Lac Sam, pretty much any dock would have to float, even one that is tethered to the shore. Going from a fixed location floating dock, to putting a motor on it and unhooking it from the shore, is not a very large logical leap.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Our docks have, actually, never been floating docks. Nor have our neighbours -- but yes, many others have had floating docks of the non-mobile kind. So, yes, maybe not a large leap.