Dry port

The dry port is a solution of carpark of the boats with ground, in the same way that in a port with flood

The concept of the dry port: carpark with " voiturier"

The dry port in racks is intended for the motor boats. The acceptable limiting size varies according to the ports: it is currently of approximately 9 meters in the French ports.

The boats are arranged in a carpark with boat, on steel racks. the site must be in the vicinity direct of the water level, in order to ensure an immediate availability of the boats. The specifically adapted machines of handling ensure the setting the water of the boats in less than 3 minutes in full safety and without damaging the hulls. The dry port is equipped with bridge of waiting, in order to allow to the owners boats to refuel and to discharge their boat.

The dry port in quay level is intended to him for the sailing ships and with the motor boats larger cuts. The time of setting to water is longer and intervene on request of the owner with a 72 hours deadline.

Operation

The customers profit from an yearly subscription including a number of unlimited settings with the water of their boat. When a customer wishes to carry out an exit, it is enough for him to prevent the port if possible the day before or the very same day a simple phone call.

Following this call the personnel of the port launches the boat before the arrival of the owner and the mooring rope on the pontoon of waiting so that this one can embark and refuel in full safety on its arrival.

At the time of its return, it moors with the pontoon and warns simply the personnel of its return before leaving the port. The boat is then taken charges some by the teams with the port: it left water, rinsed then arranged.

History

The first dry port would have been built in the United States, in the state of the New Jersey, the current of the years 1960 to one time when there did not exist machine of specific handling. The manufacturers of lifting trucks were interested in the ports in dry in the current of the years 1970 and designed specific machines allowing to ensure handling of the boats very quickly. The concept then developed with the passing of years because it offers many advantages (immediate availability for the users, reduced maintenances of the boats, safety, facilitated construction of the port). Today the ports with dry largely developed in the United States and elsewhere in the world.

Advantages

Availability: failing to await a score of year on waiting list of a port with flood to benefit from the joys of navigation, the ports with dry have for some of them still some places: profit!
Facilitated use: some store their boat in their garage or on a quay level. Each setting with water is then a long and tiring martyrdom: to attach the trailer, to check the tensioners, to go to the hold of setting to water, to make the tail to descend the boat water, to go up the trailer and vice versa. With the dry port, a call is enough!
Reduced maintenances: the boat being stored with ground, it is not damaged. More antifooling, anodes centenaries, reduced corrosion!
Ecology: the dead-men and wild dampings damage the funds.
Safety: the ports with dry are equipped with protected and fitted latticework on spaces: finished the vandalism or the mooring rope which releases at the time of a storm!
makes it possible a port to release from the places of small boats to replace them by larger (profitability).
to make the port visually gravitational by the presence of grosses/beautiful boats.
reduction in the waiting list, increase in the traffic and the repercussions for the commune.
creation of a company = employment (between 5 and 10 employment).

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