I am helping a friend out with some dock ideas. He picked up a new to him pontoon boat. We put in a dock a few years ago and he wants to improve/ update it. The lake has a muck bottom. We welded a rim to a pipe and went to find bottom. We are 15-20 feet from shore and the rim/pipe went down close to 40' and no sign of hitting a solid bottom. There is only 3-4 feet of water at that point.
I am thinking this idea would work great. Cut into his yard about the size of the pontoon boat and use steel side walls. He can drive the boat into his yard and have a dock/land that surrounds the boat on 3 sides. He can later add a canopy roof to keep it out of direct weather in the future. The boat can be pulled into the inland dock. And in winter time raised up to ground level to keep it out of the water. This we can handle. The question is, is it legal to cut into your yard from a lake in Indiana?? I have not heard of this done before. At least around here. Any ideas?? Thanks
He has been toying over ideas of a floating dock. Anything from 55 gallon barrels, to styrofoam blocks. I think an in yard would be much better. He does not have a beach/shore (if that is the right term), it is a small metal wall with a drop off from his yard. So we can cut right through it to give an inlet.
I am thinking this idea would work great. Cut into his yard about the size of the pontoon boat and use steel side walls. He can drive the boat into his yard and have a dock/land that surrounds the boat on 3 sides. He can later add a canopy roof to keep it out of direct weather in the future. The boat can be pulled into the inland dock. And in winter time raised up to ground level to keep it out of the water. This we can handle. The question is, is it legal to cut into your yard from a lake in Indiana?? I have not heard of this done before. At least around here. Any ideas?? Thanks
He has been toying over ideas of a floating dock. Anything from 55 gallon barrels, to styrofoam blocks. I think an in yard would be much better. He does not have a beach/shore (if that is the right term), it is a small metal wall with a drop off from his yard. So we can cut right through it to give an inlet.