Game Craft
Along the waterfront

A working marina, kept working

Three boat handlers, one wooden dock, and a way of mooring we have not changed much in eleven years.

Carpenter working with hand tools at a wooden dock under construction
How it started

It began with one rowboat

Game Craft started in a borrowed slip at the lake shore, with one rowing boat and a stack of timber that mostly warped.

The dock is longer now and the boat ramp is ours, but every vessel is still secured one berth at a time, by people who know each boat by name.

We take on a few fewer moorings than we could. It keeps the maintenance honest and the wait times short.

If a fishing boat leaves the pier and we would not trust it ourselves, it stays tied up here instead.

Boat builder securing planks on a fishing boat hull
Equipment

Wood, rope and brass

We source from suppliers we have visited in person, in quantities we can actually maintain before the seasons turn.

Scrap timber goes into smaller repairs, and every line is spliced here from raw materials rather than bought pre-cut.

At the pier

The people who work here

Kai M.Boat handling and rigging

Maintains every vessel moored at the dock.

Petra S.Dock construction and repair

Builds, maintains and treats every wooden structure.

Marcus T.Boat finishing and care

Refinishes hulls in small batches and prepares each vessel.

Process

How a boat gets ready for the water

01

Docks

We plan on paper and refine the layout until it's seaworthy.

02

Building

Everything is constructed in the workshop next door, by experienced hands.

03

Wooden Pier Guide

Each boat is inspected, certified and readied before it leaves the marina.

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