Why FloatX

Buy once.
Not twice.

Plenty of floating docks look the same on a website. Most of them aren't built to survive what WA actually throws at them. Here's what's different about the one that is, and why that's worth paying for.

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10 Years
Structural warranty. In writing, not in fine print.
10mm
Block thickness. A deliberate number, not a default one.
Modular
Reconfigurable as your boat and situation change.
Why pay more

Do it right.
The first time.

Every dry dock on the market will tell you it's built for Australian conditions. Most of them are built to a spec sheet, shipped here, and hoped for.

The Fremantle Doctor doesn't read brochures. Neither does six months of WA summer UV, or a chop that doesn't really let up in Cockburn Sound. A dock that's a few millimetres thinner, made from a cheaper polymer grade, or sized to a generic average instead of your actual vessel will show it. Not all at once. Slowly. A bit of flex here. A hairline crack there. A block gone chalky and brittle by year three, doing the exact thing you bought a dock to get away from.

That's the cost nobody puts in the cheaper quote: you'll likely be back in the market for a new dock around the same time your FloatX dock would have paid itself off. FloatX isn't the cheapest dry dock you can buy in WA, and it's not trying to be. It's priced to be the one you only have to buy once.

UV-degraded floating dock block showing surface crazing and hairline cracks after years in WA conditions
Engineered, not guessed

Ten millimetres. On purpose.

Every FloatX block is 10mm thick. That number isn't pulled from a catalogue. It's the point we landed on after weighing the two things that actually decide whether a dock survives a WA decade: strength and buoyancy.

Go thinner, and you save weight, but you give up the durability that lets a block shrug off ten years of UV, knocks, and WA heat without turning brittle. Go thicker, and you add strength you don't need, at the cost of the buoyancy and easy handling that make the system practical to fit and live with.

10mm is where those two requirements meet. Thick enough to take what a WA summer throws at it, year after year. Thin enough that the system stays balanced, buoyant, and straightforward to configure to your vessel. It's a small number on a spec sheet. It's also a large part of why a FloatX block is still doing its job long after a cheaper one has started to fail.

FloatX block with corner removed showing internal cross-section and wall construction
Backed, not just sold

Ten years. No fine print.

What's covered

Structural failure in the block itself, and genuine manufacturing defects, including UV degradation beyond what the materials are rated for. If it's our fault, we own it and replace it. That's what the ten years is for.

What isn't

Damage from impact, misuse, or handling outside normal operation. If something's been put through what it wasn't built for, we'll tell you that too, the same way we'd want it told to us.

Built to adapt

Boats change. So can this.

Most floating docks are sized once, for one boat, and that's the end of the conversation. Upgrade to something bigger, move to a new mooring, or sell the boat on, and the dock you paid for becomes the dock you now have to replace.

FloatX is modular by design. The system is built from individual units that can be reconfigured, added to, or adjusted as your situation changes, not torn out and started again. A bigger boat next season means the dock can be reconfigured to suit it. A move to a different jetty or stretch of water means the same units can move with you.

You're not locking yourself into today's boat or today's plans. You're putting your money into a system that can change when you do.

Boat sitting on FloatX floating dock at marina pen
New to the range

New airlift system. Same standard.

New to the range

The FloatX airlift system is the newest part of the range, a dry-docking approach designed to bring the same dry-hull outcome to bigger, heavier vessels that the standard FloatX system already delivers for smaller ones.

It's new, and we're not going to stand here and tell you it has ten years of WA seasons behind it, because it doesn't, and you'd see straight through it if we tried. What it does have is the same engineering thinking behind every part of FloatX: built deliberately, tested before it ever touched the water, and held to the same standard as the rest of the range.

If anything needs attention while this system earns its runway in the field, which is true of any new piece of marine equipment from anyone, we'll be there. Fast, at our cost, until it's running the way it's meant to. Not because the brochure says so. Because that's how we'd want a new product backed if we were the ones buying it.

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Still weighing up something cheaper?

That's a fair thing to be doing. The honest answer is that FloatX isn't the cheapest dry dock in WA, and it was never built to be.

It's built to still be doing its job in ten years, backed by a warranty that means what it says, on a system engineered for the conditions it actually has to survive. Tell us about your boat and your situation, and we'll put the real numbers in front of you so you can see exactly what you're choosing between.

Buy once. Not twice.

WA-based. WA-installed. No obligation. Just the numbers.