Stop paying rent to the canal

What your canal charges a boat that floats

If you are on a Gulf-access canal, the water behind your house is the same salt you run out to through the Caloosahatchee, and it does not take the week off while the boat sits. Growth starts on the hull, the slime line comes back faster than you scrub it, running gear collects corrosion, and bottom paint quietly becomes a standing line item. Raising the boat out of that water between trips is the cheapest fix anybody has found for all of it at once.

On the freshwater side of the Cape the argument is different but it still holds. No barnacles, but plenty of sun, plenty of wake down the canal, and a boat hanging on lines every night working against its fenders. A boat up in a cradle is out of all that, and it is higher when storm season starts sending weather across the city.

The install itself lives at the seawall. Nearly every canal home in the Cape sits behind concrete, and that concrete, not the lot line and not the house, is what the layout gets measured from: where the lift stands, where the cradle sits without crowding the walkway, and how much room you have to swing in when the wind is pushing you down the canal. We scope the install around Lee County and City of Cape Coral dock rules and walk you through the permit steps before the barge shows up.