Until recently, the hauling out of pleasure boats took place only for maintenance, particularly for careening.
The advent of materials which were able to withstand the elements permitted the development of a large range of small craft which their owners stored at home during the winter and brought to the water front on trailers pulled by their own cars. More often than not, they themselves took care of launching their boats and of hauling them out upon their return to the harbour.
The extraordinary development of pleasure boating and the increasing difficulty of enlarging the facilities for wet berthing by means of the extension of existing harbours or of developing new harbours now leads us to have recourse much more systematically to the solution offered by what is commonly called dry storage.
The type and structure of maritime installations to be built, the type of equipment to be installed, the size and the method to be used in developing the land areas to be constructed varies a great deal according to the problem posed. Thus, it is indispensable to have a good estimation and understanding of the measures to be taken from the outset of the survey as mistakes in this field would be difficult to correct later on.
The object of the present report is to analyze the different solutions which could be used.
