Instructions / Assembly

INSTALLATION GUIDELINES FOR WOODEN DOCKS
Read carefully the “Anchoring Technique Suggestions Guide”
before designing your layout
These suggestions are intended to guide you as much as possible in planning your project. However, we can not be held responsible for any
incidents or damages that may occur as a result of putting into practice the techniques presented in this document, our fact sheets, or on our
website. These technical drawings, illustrations and/or information are not to be substituted, in whole or in part, for certified engineered
drawings and are intended as general guidelines only.
INSTALLING STATIONARY DOCKS
Level
SledgeHammer
Tape measure
7/16”, 9/16” and 3/4” wrenches
Hammer
REQUIRED TOOLS
CONNECTING FLOATING DOCKS
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> To move a dock while protecting its floats, lay long planks on the ground and slide the dock over them.
> Once in the water, bring 2 dock sections together and align them.
> Assess the wind direction to begin connecting the hinges on the windward side. This way you won’t have
to struggle to get the dock sections together and the second set of hinges will interlock on its own.
> Kneel down on the two dock sections to level them and interlock the hinges. Using a hammer, insert the
hinge pin and secure it with the safety pin.
> Refer to the Anchoring Technique Suggestions page to tie down your dock with chains attached to
concrete blocks.
DOCK ACCESSORIES
Planning ahead your whole dock layout will allow to install the proper complements,
such as dock bumpers, on solid ground.
Some accessories like dock ladders and some mooring cleats must be reinforced
under the decking. If you don’t install them while building the dock, you will have to
unscrew decking planks later...sometimes in the water.
SEMI-FLOATING DOCK
Being the key to a floating dock layout, your Semi-Floating Dock section may have to be preceded by a Stationary Dock
section to reach your required water depth. In that case, do not add posts to it. The hinges must move freely at both ends
of this Semi-Floating section. Move the short posts and leg holders at the beginning of the stationary dock.
> To facilitate the installation, the piles can be inserted into the leg holders beforehand;
tighten just litely as you will adjust them to the right height once in the water.
> Before entering the water, you can slide the base plates on the posts, leaving about 6”
underneath them (a little more if the lake bottom is muddy or a little less if it is a very hard
bottom) an tighten firmly the locking bolt.
> By hitting the posts with a sledgehammer (protect the end with a piece of wood), drive them
until the base plates reach the ground. With your foot, press on the plates to make sure that
they are flush to the ground.
> Readjust the height and level of the dock by loosening the leg holder bolts one corner at
the time. Tighten them securely when all leveling is done.
> Connect the second section to the first one with dock hinges, installing 2 posts at the
other end, and so on.
> Multinautic® posts can be cut with a metal saw, a grinder or a pipe cutter. Allow at least
12” to protrude above the dock for possible adjustments due to water level fluctuations.
> Complete by installing the protective PVC caps.
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