CanDock Dealer · Paw Paw, Michigan
Floating Docks Built Around Your Waterfront
Beach Bumz Marine designs and installs custom CanDock floating dock systems for Michigan waterfronts — from simple swim platforms to complete dock layouts with integrated PWC and boat access.
The Basics
What Is CanDock?
CanDock is a modular floating dock system built from durable, interconnected floating cubes and components. Instead of being limited to a fixed dock layout, CanDock can be configured around your shoreline, water conditions, and the way you actually use your waterfront.
Because the system is modular, a narrow walkway can open into a large swim platform, incorporate PWC or boat access, or be expanded and reconfigured later. Since the entire system floats, it can also be an excellent solution for soft bottoms, changing water levels, and shorelines where a traditional sectional or roll-in dock may be difficult to use.
- Changing water levels
- Difficult or irregular shorelines
- Swimming platforms
- Drive-on PWC access
- Boat access
- Custom waterfront layouts
- Expanding or reconfiguring later
Why CanDock
Why Michigan Waterfront Owners Choose CanDock
Six reasons homeowners on our lakes keep coming back to the modular approach.
Modular by Design
The system is built from interlocking floating components, so the layout can be shaped around your shoreline and the way you actually use the water.
Handles Changing Water Levels
Because the dock floats with the water, it stays at a consistent height relative to the surface — helpful where fixed-height docks become awkward through the season.
Low Maintenance
No wood decking to stain, seal, or replace and no seasonal leveling of dock legs. CanDock is designed for long-term waterfront use with very little routine maintenance.
Custom Layouts
Straight runs, L and T shapes, wide platforms, swim areas, PWC sections — configured around your property rather than a fixed catalog size.
Comfortable Waterfront Access
Wider sections give you room for seating, swimming, boarding watercraft, and simply spending time on the water.
Professional Design & Installation
We evaluate your shoreline, water depth, bottom conditions, exposure, anchoring needs, and how you use the water. From there, Beach Bumz designs the layout and handles delivery and professional installation.
Michigan Seasons
CanDock and Michigan Seasons
One of CanDock's biggest advantages for Michigan waterfront owners is that many properly designed and anchored systems can remain in the water year-round — eliminating the annual spring installation and fall removal routine of a traditional dock.
We are careful not to promise it for every property. Whether a year-round install makes sense depends on real conditions at your shoreline:
- Ice movement
- Wave and wind exposure
- Lake conditions
- Anchoring approach
- Local shoreline conditions
We will walk your situation through with you and tell you plainly whether we would leave it in over winter or pull it.
Built for Long-Term Waterfront Use
CanDock's modular cubes are backed by a 20-year manufacturer's warranty. Combined with durable construction, low maintenance, and the ability to expand or reconfigure your layout in the future, CanDock is designed to be a long-term investment in your waterfront.
Beach Bumz also designs each system around the conditions at your property, because proper layout and anchoring are just as important as the dock itself.
PWC Access
Add Drive-On PWC Access
CanDock can integrate drive-on PWC ports directly into your floating dock layout, giving your jet skis or wave runners their own dedicated space while keeping the hull out of the water when not in use.
- Easy boarding right from the dock surface
- Drive-on, drive-off convenience
- Keeps the hull out of the water when not in use
- Integrates into the dock layout instead of sitting apart
Boat Access
Drive-On Access for Compatible Boats
CanDock offers drive-on solutions for many compatible boats weighing up to approximately 6,000 lbs, depending on the boat and application.
Important compatibility information
- Conventional pontoons and tritoons are not compatible with this drive-on application.
- The Sea-Doo Switch is an exception and can be supported in properly designed configurations.
- Boat weight alone does not determine compatibility. Hull design, beam, length, weight distribution, and other factors all need to be considered.
Tell us your boat's year, make, model, and approximate weight and we'll help determine whether a CanDock drive-on system is the right solution. If it isn't, we can help size a traditional boat lift instead.
Ask About Boat Access
Gallery
Real CanDock Installations
Explore CanDock layouts for swimming, PWC access, boats, difficult shorelines, and more. Beach Bumz installations and manufacturer-supplied application photos are labeled below.
Long walkway with large slip and drive-on ports
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Water accessible dock in marina slip
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Residential dock platform with kayak launch and storage
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Sea-Doo Switch supported by a CanDock drive-on system
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Residential walkway with integrated evening lighting
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Local waterfront restaurant docking solution
Beach Bumz installation
Indoor competition-pool platform — an unusual application
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Seaplane moored on a drive-on floating configuration
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Lounge and swim platform configuration
Manufacturer photography
The Process
From Shoreline to Finished Dock
Getting started is easy. Tell us about your waterfront and upload a few shoreline photos through our quote form. That gives us a head start on understanding your property before we ever visit the site.
- 01
Tell Us About Your Waterfront
Fill out the quote form with your lake, shoreline, water depth, and how you use the water. Photo uploads are welcome and genuinely helpful.
- 02
We Review Your Shoreline & Goals
We look at access, depth, exposure, and what you want the dock to do before recommending anything.
- 03
We Design the Layout
You get a configuration and anchoring approach matched to your site — including PWC or boat access if you want it.
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Delivery & Installation
We deliver and install, then walk you through how the system behaves through the season.
Honest Comparison
Is a Floating Dock Right for Your Waterfront?
CanDock isn't the right solution for every waterfront. In some situations, a traditional aluminum sectional or roll-in dock is the better fit — and Beach Bumz offers those systems too.
CanDock tends to shine when you have…
- Water levels that move noticeably through the season
- Soft, mucky, or otherwise difficult shoreline and lake bottom
- A swimming-focused layout in mind
- An irregular shoreline that needs an unusual shape
- Plans to integrate drive-on PWC access
- A preference for a floating surface underfoot
A sectional or roll-in dock may fit better when…
- The bottom is firm and water depth is stable
- You prefer a rigid, fixed-height walking surface
- Seasonal installation and removal isn't a concern
- The layout is a simple straight run with a conventional boat lift
- Your boat is a conventional pontoon or tritoon needing lift storage
See our dock systems and boat lifts.
Not sure which style fits your shoreline? That's exactly what we're here to help with.
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CanDock Questions We Hear Often
Local
CanDock Floating Docks for Michigan Waterfronts
Beach Bumz Marine is based in Paw Paw, Michigan, and designs and installs CanDock systems throughout Michigan. Much of our work is concentrated on the inland lakes of Southwest Michigan, where we regularly encounter changing water levels, soft lake bottoms, difficult shorelines, and seasonal conditions that make floating docks an excellent option.
If you're considering CanDock anywhere in Michigan, tell us about your waterfront. We'll help determine whether a floating dock makes sense for your property and design a system around how you actually use the water.
Let's Design Your CanDock
Tell us about your shoreline, water depth, how you use the lake, and what you'd like your waterfront to do. We'll help design a CanDock layout around your property, your water, and the way you use it.