Build it for the water you actually have

Layout is the decision you only get once

Everything about a new dock in Fort Myers starts with one question: are you on the open Caloosahatchee, or back on a canal street off it? Two addresses a few blocks apart can want completely different builds. Open river frontage hands the wind a long unbroken run at your pilings and adds passing wake on top of it, most of the day. The canal neighborhoods behind the river sit out of most of that and behave much closer to the water we work every day at home base, straight across.

A new build is the one moment you get to answer that question with the structure itself instead of working around it for the next couple of decades. Deck height gets set off the real range between high and low water, not off however the river happened to look the afternoon you called. Piling depth and spacing get set for the exposure your frontage actually has. Where the platform sits, which way the walkway runs and how the whole thing meets your seawall all get settled while it is still a drawing, which is the cheap time to settle them.

On the calmer canal side the same conversation shifts to room: what your boat needs, what the neighbor's dock leaves you, and whether a lift well gets cut into the layout now instead of retrofitted a few seasons in. Either way the answer belongs to your address and not to a catalog. Fort Myers sits in Lee County, so Lee County rules are part of the picture, and we scope the build around them and walk you through the permit steps at the front of the job instead of the middle of it.