Best place to find dock piling slides

[ngd]

I am looking for some 4 ft. stainless (so they won't rust) dock piling slides. I moved my boat from a floating dock and want to install slides for my new slip so the boat will adjust according to the tide. Can anyone suggest the best place to get these. I need 1" diameter tubing.

 

[Ron20324]

I am looking for some 4 ft. stainless (so they won't rust) dock piling slides. I moved my boat from a floating dock and want to install slides for my new slip so the boat will adjust according to the tide. Can anyone suggest the best place to get these. I need 1" diameter tubing.

My slip neighbor just used galvanized pipe. He mounted two flanges to the piling, then threaded pipe into that. It really just looks like a stainless handrail that would be on a boat. Both ways do not look strong enough to last thruogh a badstorm, but then again he'd double the lines anyway.

I would think that dock lines that are horizontal at mid-tide from boat to piling would suffice.

 

[Tim R.]

Why not loop your lines around the piling and use some sections of tubing to roll up and down the pilings? Or something like this:

Tideminders:

 

[BobM]

Dock piling slides...sounds like something you need a colonoscopy for.

 

[Joe]

Here ya' go, I googled "dock supplies" for ya

Is this what you're looking for:

http://www.dockbuilders.com/tideslide.htm

Here's just a plain bracket...

http://dockhardwaresupply.com/item_review.asp?item=dhw045tt

here's something else:

http://www.dockbuilders.com/slidemoor.htm

Also, here's a link to the Tideminder that Tim R. suggested.

http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|5948|296194|296541&id=888391

Oh...... I can't resist this one. Just had to add it. Take a look:

http://www.tideties.com/how.html

 

[Blitz]

Re: Here ya' go, I googled "dock supplies" for ya

Tideminders only work if there isn't another boat tied up on the same pile.

The old tire concept works best, but it becomes water logged and sinks. There was a manufacturer (out of business) that produced a plastic ring that floats (both boats in each slip tie to it and it will go up or down on the pile with the tide.) Looks like a ring buoy

 

[Tim R.]

Tideminders only work if there isn't another boat tied up on the same pile.

According to their website they will work for multiple boats but you have to convince your neighbor to buy them too.

Thanks God for floating docks!

 

[MrBee]

What ever you decide to use, PLEASE make sute it is not those Block and pully systems. There are few boats in our marine that use them and I swear one night I'm gonna cut the lines. They have rusted and make such loud squeeking noises that it's worse than Halyard slap. If I stayed at the boat more often, while at the marina, I would have to have a talk with the owners. I know it makes it easy for them but sucks for those of us that have to listen to it.

 

[Joe]

not so

Tideminders only work if there isn't another boat tied up on the same pile.

The old tire concept works best, but it becomes water logged and sinks. There was a manufacturer (out of business) that produced a plastic ring that floats (both boats in each slip tie to it and it will go up or down on the pile with the tide.) Looks like a ring buoy

That product is mentioned with a link in my previous post, it is called a "tide tie" once again... here's the link http://www.tideties.com/how.html

 

[Blitz]

Much Simpler version

The product I was referring to was much simpler. Please excuse the blury picture but wanted to show that even a power boater can share

Seriously - it was called the Charlie-O-Ring and they stopped making them last year. I've had it on my boat for over ten years.