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Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Here's a thought and I'm hoping that someone with experience will comment. Use a floating dock, built with lumber and those large black plastic air chamber plastic floats, and it can be left in all year without the need for a water circulator.

Sure, it will get frozen in but it will not get damaged. Anyone be doing this or seen it?

I'm not so sure it is just the ice forming around one's dock that does the damage. In my case, my dock went to the great GOD of ice damaged piers because of ice movement. In the winter when it expanded against it and in the spring because of movement of the ice thawing and moving with the winds. I' don't believe anything will save a dock in the spring if and I say if the wind is coming from the right direction and is strong enough to get it moving.