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Boat Lift Installation · Fort Myers Beach
Get your boat up off Estero Bay
On a barrier island the water works on a hull from every direction: salt that never lets up, and a bay with room to build a chop as soon as it blows. A lift takes the boat out of all of it between runs, as long as it was sized for the boat you really load and set deep enough for island water.
Sized for a boat that runs the pass
A Fort Myers Beach boat is a Gulf boat. Matanzas Pass is the way out, so the trips tend to be the loaded kind: full fuel, full water, everybody aboard and the cooler that never comes off. Then it comes back to open bay water instead of a still canal. Both of those facts land on the lift, in what it picks up and in what it holds your boat above while it does it.
So the sizing conversation out here starts from the loaded reality rather than the printed one, and the room we leave on top of it earns its keep twice on an island. A lift is a machine living in salt air with the Gulf on one side and the bay on the other. Running with room to spare rather than at the top of what it is rated for is most of what decides how the cables, motors and hardware hold up out here.
The mount point matters just as much. Easing into a cradle with open water pushing the bow around is a different job from sliding in between two close canal seawalls, so guide posts and honest cradle room stop being a nicety. Height matters too, and it is a spring decision rather than a storm-season one. The pilings for it go in off the barge from the bay side, so nothing heavy crosses a tight island lot to get there.
Every job covers
Sizing from real wet weight
We size from what your boat weighs loaded and ready to run, hull, motors, full fuel, water and gear, plus margin. Not the brochure number off the spec sheet.
Dedicated lift pilings
A lift gets its own pilings, driven from the barge straight and deep. It does not hang off dock pilings that were never set to carry a boat in the air.
Cradle, bunks and guide posts
Bunks set to your hull so the load lands where the boat is strong, and guide posts so you drive in clean when there is wind or current pushing you around.
Motors, wiring and controls
Motors and switches mounted where you actually want to stand, wired and cycled before we call it finished.
Beams and salt-rated hardware
Beams, cables and fasteners specified for salt water and set square, because a lift that runs out of square chews through its own cables.
Walkthrough on day one
The owner runs the lift with you, boat in the cradle, until raising and lowering it is something you do without thinking.
Real work, real water
Every photo is our own work on SW Florida water. Click any of them to look closer.
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“Alex, and crew were able to get the job done quickly (when other contractors were months out). ... My dock is now finished and I could not be happier! I would highly recommend Alex for your dock building needs.”John Anderson · Google
Fort Myers Beach questions
You bring the boat, we bring the barge
Everything lands from the bay side, so nothing heavy has to squeeze down an island lot to reach your dock. Walk your back bay frontage with Alex, talk through what the boat carries on a run out Matanzas Pass, and the capacity, the height and the guide posts come out of that conversation instead of a form. The visit costs nothing.
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