Читать книгу Building Your Own Dock - Sam Merriam - Страница 24

Finally, after you’ve exited the water, go for a clean sheet of graph paper. From a bird’s eye view, plot out your water depth to scale on the graph paper, beginning at the shore and then moving out. Draw in the dock, section by section, and the legs adjacent to their respective depth measurements. Add in any obstacles or landmarks that may be important to you. Indicate anything to help with erecting the dock, such as the height off the water you want it set at, the landmark on the opposite shore you’re aiming it toward, and a landmark on the shore near where the dock should start. At this point you have the basics down. Add more details if you’d like. Show where the ladder or the bench is supposed to go and where each boat gets moored to the dock.

From shore, measure out where you want the dock to begin in increments equal to the dock sections’ length that you’ve considered for your plan. At each increment, record the depth needed to determine the length of each dock leg. Check the bottom’s hardness and see that your plan doesn’t take you into depths greater than what is practical to manage.

This is your plan. However, if you will be using this survey drawing for a permit application, keep the one with all the extra details for yourself. Make a separate drawing that only includes the details asked for within the application instructions.

If your site survey findings are not suitable for a fixed dock, the information you gained from this exercise will most certainly assist with the planning of any other classification. If you do have the right conditions for a fixed dock, the next few chapters describe a host of different support methods for fixed docks in sections, each with its own chapter that details a different support technique. Look and learn about them to find the method that best suits your environment, your wallet, and the purpose you have in mind for a dock.