Floating dock (jetty)

As a floating dock is called a floating structure on the water, which is provided with one or more floats.

A special form of the floating rib are floating docks that serve to lay vessels for repairs dry.

Function

Floating docks are used in tidal waters as water level independent dock.

In marinas ( Marina) they serve to divide the water surface and to use for as many berths.

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Construction

The float can be made of concrete, steel, aluminum or plastic.

The Gehbelag for floating docks can be manufactured, for example, made ​​of wooden boards, plastic boards, GRP panels, grids or sheet metal profiles. Floating docks with floats made ​​of aluminum and plastic and often have a support structure for mounting the Gehbelages. When floats made ​​of concrete or steel, the floating body can simultaneously represent the Gehbelag.

Floating docks are mounted between posts or anchored with chains on the ground and braced.

Mooring

Mooring line

Before each pier is located at a distance of about two ship lengths, a concrete block at the base. From this run, attached with a short chain, a Festmachertau under water towards the jetty. The end of the mooring body is designed as a thin line, which is secured on the web. When you create is driven backwards to the dock and secured the rear with two stern lines at the dock. Then at the dock the mooring line is recorded with a boat hook and assigned as a pre-line under tension on the bow of the ship.

Dolphins

Here is before each land a number of dolphins made ​​of wood, steel or concrete. Between two opposite webs are two Dalbenreihen. They form a narrow alley to the entrance to the ship in the box. The two dolphins are apart about a ship width, so that the ship may invest perpendicular to the web. The ship is moored with two stern lines to the two dolphins and two pre-lines between the bow and bridge. In motor boat marinas also Dalbenreihen which do not form lane in each box, but are at a distance of several boat widths exist. These dolphins have to be much higher because of a wire rope is stretched to Dalbe Dalbe. At this cable hang two stern lines. When leaving the boat site this stern line to be hooked into the bow line to the bridge in order to then take lightly again can.

Finger webs

Alternatively, the webs are equipped with perpendicular thereto short finger ridges. They allow a longitudinal hand - mooring, with the same arrangement of the ships, as well as a convenient entry and exit. The finger webs are often shorter than the ship; to avoid a collision with the bridge, then it must be placed one ( referred to in this arrangement Spring) mooring line from the ridge end of the ship to tip of finger ridge.