Floating marina docks facilitate access to moored craft.
Floating docks can be laid along a shoreline to facilitate vessel access or can constitute a comprehensive port ensemble. The main docks of a marina are securely fastened to posts. Narrower docks delimit individual vessel slips, providing long-side access.
The floating dock rests on flotation devices. It is built of galvanized steel, aluminum, concrete, plastic and/or wood. Materials are chosen according to size and functional constraints.
A floating dock is indispensable in areas of significant tidal variation in order to maintain a constant vertical relationship between dock and vessel
