Splash and Dash Searey Seaplane Delights                            May 13 3:48 Guest User - Request Membership Layout | Log In | Help | Videos | Site | Emails  Search:   Front Page Calendar Photos Add Photos News Add News File Cabinet Add File Cabinet History Add History * Searey Info * Add * Searey Info * Polls Add Polls Classifieds Add Classifieds Utilities Create a New Site  News View All News | Add News | Emoticons | Mark Unread Search News:      Category: Previous Item - Haiti opportunity This will go to the previous thread in this topic.       Favorite option: If you want this item to be marked as a favorite, click on the black heart.   How do I get on the tech ...         Next Item - Neat website for getting airport information This will go to the next thread in this topic.    Reid McKelvey - Mar 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply     How do I get on the tech site, thanks reid , future builder          Dan Nickens - Mar 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply     When you have an assigned kit number, Reid, one of the technical site administrators (Rob Loneragan, Eric Batterman or Daniel Myers) can send you an invitation. Until then, you can try contacting individual members on this site with questions or join the Serious Seaplane Site and ask there.          Reid McKelvey - Mar 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply     i live on lake martin in central alabama. my only problem is finding the best wat to dock or secure the searey. we have a pier(dock) and seawall. the water is deep and have no access to a boat ramp close by.Do you know anybody with pic of how i could park and secure the searey, thanks reid          Tim Johnson - Mar 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply     www.jetdock.com may help          Don Maxwell - Mar 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Reid, here's a SeaRey docked in deep water with a three-foot tide.       Attachments:   DockedSeaRey 0008          Kenneth Leonard - Mar 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply     One boat wake comes by in that position Don, and your precious plane proceeds to be punctured, perforated and predictably in peril.          Don Maxwell - Mar 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply     That would 'p' me off, Ken. But this method works just fine. It's hard to see in this photo, but there are other pics on STS that show a little better how the standoffs work. There's a triangular arrangement on the strut that, in concert with the single standoff on the bow, keeps the airplane at a safe distance from the dock despite any boat wake, even accounting for the rise and fall of the tide. A wake or tsunami higher or lower than the length of the standoffs would be unfortunate--but the standoffs can be any reasonable length at all. These are long enough for 'normal' wakes and short enough so that one can step from airplane to dock and back again.          Philip Mendelson - Mar 16,2010   Viewers  | Reply     I agree with others, you do NOT want to leave your AC in the water for more than a few hours. Some type of lift system would probably be great..          Jeff Arnold - Mar 16,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Reid, I would not be comfortable leaving my plane in the water. There are too many bad things that can happen. A big boat wake has been mentioned. There is the leaking / sinking possibility. Also, do they fish on your lake? We get fishing lures all over our dock and boats. I can see them snagging a flying surface and jerking it out causing a large rip. On our lake, that would probably happen once a week.          Don Maxwell - Mar 16,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Good advice from Jeff, Reid. I don't like leaving my SeaRey floating for long periods unattended--although it and many others have floated for several days at a time at the Oshkosh seaplane base, tethered to buoys. But there are no wakes or high waves there. Still, in another posting, Jeff recommended an automatic bilge pump that in most cases will keep a SeaRey afloat. The only exception I know of is when a lot of water ends up aft of the bilge, where the pump can't get at it. One really nifty solution is a barge or floating dock with ramps on both sides. There's a photo here, somewhere.          David Myers - Mar 16,2010   Viewers  | Reply     if you'd like a used jet dock, i believe my brother daniel has one for sale in good cond.          Daniel Paul Myers - Mar 16,2010   Viewers  | Reply     I emailed him about it. It is an EZ dock          John Stevens - Mar 19,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Reid,look at one of the portable alum. jet ski lifts. They are very adjustable and may work for the rey.          Philip Mendelson - Mar 20,2010   Viewers  | Reply     Good idea...there are a few companies out there that build some nice lifts...

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