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Originally Posted by codeman671
Shop your quotes hard on the permanent dock and breakwater, I had a pretty serious fluctuation in quotes between contractors.
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This is good advice.
According to a neighbor who has one, one consideration is that breakwaters will settle into the lake. Winter ice will shift them around and knock off some of the rocks. Either way, they're not maintenance-free.
Another is that the breakwater will build up sand mostly on the side that's exposed to the prevailing wind (which is NW).
If your neighbors are upwind to your proposed breakwater, they should be concerned: They will lose (or have to periodically dredge) clearance under their boat. Wave action around breakwaters tend to erode
both your neighbors' shorelines.
This means that towards the end of each season, when the lake level goes down "naturally", there will be less depth in which your boat can clear the bottom. If you get monster wakes in your locale, and the bottom is a rock ledge, you'll definitely need a breakwater to prevent damage to the bottom of your boat.
Monster wakes caused me to inquire about a breakwater. The contractor told me I'd have to remove my existing permanent dock, which I am unwilling to do. (So I'm stuck).
