What type of jetty?

[gusgez]

I have mud and sand bottom and want a dock that is cheap (both maintenance, purchase, and installation) and that lasts well for many years. Should I go for a stone pier, floating dock, or piling?

(moderator is welcome to move if the topic is in the wrong category)

 

[MathiasS]

A good tip is usually to look at how the jetties closest to you look. What has worked?

There is no cheap solution that lasts for several years. Building sturdy jetties is expensive. Larger cribbing is difficult to build on your own if you don't have stones available.

Driving piles with telephone poles usually works well in clay/mud/sand. If you get help with that (I guess around a thousand per pole including installation), you can build the rest yourself afterwards. Piling, however, assumes that you have many meters down to bedrock. If it's only a meter or two down to bedrock, it might be wobbly sideways.

 

[Alfred Jonsson]

Do you have high and low tide?

A lot of waves?

How long should it be?

 

[gusgez]

Do you have high and low tide?

A lot of waves?

How long should it be?

It is low and high tide, not so many waves, a bay, I'm considering about 25m long (including any gangway) and 3m wide like an L

 

[martinradbo]

That's quite a big brygga that...

 

[gusgez]

It's quite a large pier that...

definitely ...maybe 20m it will be.

All neighbors have a floating dock so I think that might be it...tips on manufacturers and suppliers in Roslagen at the level of Ängsö National Park..?

Then shore power and dock lights are needed...tips?

 

[Alfred Jonsson]

It is low and high tide, not so many waves, a bay, the length I'm thinking about approximately 25m long (including possible gangway) and 3m wide like an L

With that length, you probably only have a floating dock to choose from unless you want to spend up to 200,000 to make a really good dock.

Good luck!

 

[MathiasS]

Hmm....if we haven't talked about a floating dock made of old rusty barrels, this is likely to cost 200k or more no matter how he does it....

Sturdy floating docks are not free.