Patent ID: 6526902
Filing Date: 2003-03-04
Classification: B63C

Abstract:
A drive-on dry dock especially suited for a boat longer than about thirty-eight feet and weighing more than about twelve thousand pounds; said dock comprising:a platform including an aft section and a forward section; guide surfaces on the platform defining a path for movement of the boat from the aft section toward the forward section; the guide surfaces defining a rest position in which the boat's bow engages and is supported by the forward section of the dock; the forward section and the aft section being hinged together relative for movement about an axis transverse to the path; and a lift which moves the platform between a first position in which a top surface of the forward section is generally coplanar and substantially above the mean water level and the aft section is displaced downward with its top surface being submerged as the boat is driven along the path to the rest position, and a second position in which the top surface of the aft section is above the mean water level and the boat is out of the water.