A family company

A family company

Family owned and fully insured, with 25+ years building structures.

It is a family company in the ordinary sense: the people whose name is on the truck are the people accountable for the work. Anthony founded it and wrote the standard every job follows.

The Rowell family.
The family out on the water
Anthony on a dock at the marsh.

Process

How a project works

  1. 01

    Send photos

    A few pictures and the address or nearest town.

  2. 02

    Look first

    A site visit to photograph and document the condition.

  3. 03

    Put it in writing

    Scope, materials, price and schedule, before any work.

  4. 04

    Built in the shop

    Replacement sections built to match your structure.

  5. 05

    Delivered by boat

    Floated into place and fastened to what is already there.

  6. 06

    Walk it through

    The finished work reviewed with you, on the dock.

  7. 07

    Yearly check

    An optional visit before each storm season.

Step one takes five minutes. Send a few photos.

A replacement section, built in the shop and ready to deliver.

The standard

Five things we do on every job.

  1. 01

    Look first

    We photograph and document the condition before we quote.

  2. 02

    Put it in writing

    Scope, materials, hardware, price and schedule, in writing, before any work.

  3. 03

    Show up as agreed

    If weather or access changes the plan, you hear it from us first.

  4. 04

    Say when it changes

    Anything we find once the work is open is shown to you and approved before we proceed.

  5. 05

    Walk it through

    We review the finished scope with you, on the dock, before we call it done.

The people on your dock may change as we grow. The standard does not.

From the archive

This coast has always been built by hand.

Long before cranes and composite decking, the docks of the Cape Fear coast were timber, rope and labor. Boards were cut, carried and fastened one at a time. Salt, sun and storms wore them down, and people repaired them the same way they built them: by looking closely and doing the work right.

We work in that tradition. Keep what is sound, replace what is not, and leave the structure ready for the next season.

Southport, North Carolina, 28 February 1931.

Dredge Currituck tied to USED wharf at Southport, North Carolina. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District. Source: Wikimedia Commons: 262 Dredge Currituck tied to USED wharf at Southport, North Carolina - USACE-p15141coll5-8091.jpeg. License: public domain.

Southport, North Carolina, 28 February 1931.

Dredge Currituck at USED wharf, Southport, North Carolina. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District. Source: Wikimedia Commons: 267 Dredge Currituck at USED wharf, Southport, North Carolina - USACE-p15141coll5-8121.jpeg. License: public domain.

Start a project

Have a dock or deck that needs attention?

Send a few details and photos. We start with a conversation about the structure and whether the project is a fit.

Send us photos of your dock