Dock Restoration - Volume 19 (final) - Snap Jacket

Trim dock boards on "L" section of dock and use router to round out edges. Here's the final view and a few comment from be about the project and what's upcoming -- the boat lift.

[@PDssi]

Enjoyed the series. For a “DIY+”, you deserve compliment for persistence to get the job done. As for the framing, might have used beefier strapping/brackets 3” rather than 1”. Might have also divide the 20’ stringer joist to 10’ and put in a mid header supported by the pilings.
A dock guy probably would have charged $40k ?

[@conradts3338]

Thank you for the comment! Needless to say, I did a lot of handwringing making decisions on how to construct. I decided that the small brackets were enough since the only force they would see would be the upward "float" of a high tide or a storm (and they did fine through 'Hurricane Idalia where the dock went underwater and another storm a couple months later - same thing). My next door neighbor mentioned using bigger brackets too. I decided to only use the pilings that were here since that would have put me way over the budget (shoestring budget -- I'm retired) to have a piling company come in and make additions or changes. I figured the old dock had stood there for 20+ years on the existing pilings so, there's that. (I was concerned that the one piling at the far end of the main dock to the left was nearly 1/2 eaten through by sea life but again, I figured that any load on that piling would be downward and only the weight of the dock plus whomever was walking above and that even at that, the load would be carried by the intermediate piling behind it. In the final analysis with these cement jacketed pilings and the new wood, that dock is super solid -- at least for as long as I'm alive. Thanks again for visiting and thanks for your comment! (Yeah. I'm sure a dock company would have charged be between $30,000-40,000) I know this because my good friend of 40+ years who has money was charged that for his dock