This
is our pier! It's about 90 feet long and was already here when we bought
the house at Chester River in
2001. In fact
according to
this satellite picture from TerraServer USA, it was already here on April
6th, 1992, so we know it's at least 12 or more years old now, but the
pilings and deck
are in very good condition! Originally it had the 11 X 12 foot platform at
the end and 2 davits on
the side that were probably used to hoist a small boat of some kind although we
have never used them. We have added three boat lifts to it since then
which are needed to keep the boats out of the water to protect them from
stormy weather and to keep them
clean. The first two lifts are
8000lbs Magnum
lifts and were both installed by
The Boat Lift Depot
in Queenstown. We use one of them to store our boat,
SusieII and on the other,
I fitted another
11 X 12 foot deck to form a lifting deck that gives us some extra space.
This is very useful for swimming, getting into the
Monster Tube or onto the
JetSki. Depending on the time of
day or year, the
tide can change the level of the water by almost six feet although on any
one day, it usually doesn't change by more than three feet or so. So now
whatever the level of the water, we can set the deck to be just the right height
and listen to the water lapping up over the edge while we sit and enjoy the
view. The third lift is for the
JetSki and is an
800lb MiniMag
also fitted by The Boat
Lift Depot. This lift can raise the
JetSki above the level of the deck and
then it swings round so that the JetSki
can be lowered onto the deck. This is very useful for cleaning & servicing
the JetSki or for just getting it onto
the lift in the first place! Checkout the video
at the end of this page to see what it is like to sit on the lifting deck and
listen to the sea! Please give the video time to load! If you see black, it means it is still downloading!
|