Float Plane Lift

Whisky Hotel is based on Lake Washington, and it was a really fun project and great learning experience to build a float plane lift.

Huge thanks to Jeff Prestmo over at Boat Lifts International for all of the help and expert installation.

Here's the dock before the project started. The boat lift in the photo needed to be upgraded as it was water powered. The next upgrade was adding a Seaplane Platform.

I explored many different lift options, including floating lifts, and all sorts of different platform placements. Iteration was pretty easy in google SketchUp. Eventually I found a good platform design from another Seaplane Pilot on Lake Sammamish, and I purchased the necessary I-Beams from another platform, then modified it to fit the lift.

Lift repair and upgrade.

The Upgraded Lift!