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None of them will decide whether the box survives its first real weather. What decides that is where the box sits and what holds it down. Almost nobody publishes a number for that.<\/p>\n\n <p>This guide works backwards from the failure. It starts with what happens to a box after it lands on a dock, then returns to the box itself. By the end, the choice you make is anchored to your dock rather than to a spec sheet.<\/p>\n\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Best-Dock-Box.webp\" style=\"width: 512px; height: 384px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; border-radius: 12px; margin: 30px auto; display: block; box-shadow: 10px 10px 60px 0px rgba(210, 221, 224, 0.35); transition: all 0.3s ease; cursor: pointer;\" onmouseover=\"this.style.transform='translateY(-5px) scale(1.03)'; this.style.boxShadow='15px 25px 80px 0px rgba(210, 221, 224, 0.45)'\" onmouseout=\"this.style.transform='translateY(0) scale(1)'; this.style.boxShadow='10px 10px 60px 0px rgba(210, 221, 224, 0.35)'\"> \n\n <h2>What a Dock Box Is — and What the Name Doesn’t Settle<\/h2>\n\n <p>A dock box is a weather-sealed storage chest that lives on a dock or in a slip. It holds the gear you would otherwise haul back and forth or leave scattered on the deck. Mooring lines, fenders, life jackets, shore power cables, a hose, a deck brush, fishing gear. Physically it is a close relative of the patio deck box and the job-site gang box. The resemblance stops there. Only one of the three is built to sit through salt spray on a surface that moves.<\/p>\n\n <p>One clarification, because supply catalogues use the term loosely. “Dock box” occasionally turns up in supplier listings for the flotation cubes a floating dock is assembled from. A complete floating dock kit is sometimes sold as a “dock-in-a-box.” Neither is what this article covers.<\/p>\n\n <p>Which raises the question that decides everything downstream. The box will sit on a dock. So what is it sitting on, and what is holding it there?<\/p>\n\n <h2>What Actually Goes Wrong Once It’s on the Dock<\/h2>\n\n <p>The published complaints cluster tightly. Almost none of them have anything to do with the shell material a buyer spends the most time weighing.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"rich-multicol bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-title\"><span class=\"rich-multicol-title-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"m21.73 18-8-14a2 2 0 0 0-3.48 0l-8 14A2 2 0 0 0 4 21h16a2 2 0 0 0 1.73-3\"\/><path d=\"M12 9v4\"\/><path d=\"M12 17h.01\"\/><\/svg><\/span>What actually fails, and where it comes from<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Loss in place<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">The box is simply gone after a storm. One owner reported coming back from fishing to find an 8 ft box missing, presumed either stolen or floated away.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">It was never attached to anything. A box light enough to lift is light enough for a surge to move.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Break-in<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">Not one box but every box on the dock, pried open the same night.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">The lock is the last link in a chain. The chain starts with whether the box can be picked up and carried.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Water ingress<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">Rust streaks, musty contents, a lid that no longer seats.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">The lid seal is the only moving joint in the product, and it lives its whole life in sun and rain.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Hardware failure<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">A lid that is hard to open, a hasp that no longer catches.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">Gas shocks, hinges and hasps are the parts built to wear out. Manufacturers sell them as replacement parts for a reason.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Material breakdown<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">Cracking panels, a warped lid.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">Low-cost units skip the wall structure and UV stabilization that keep a lid flat.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Transit damage<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">A lid that arrives scratched or dented.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">The bigger the box, the harder it is to deliver intact. That is itself a constraint on shopping by size alone.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p>Six symptoms, and most describe one problem. The box was treated as an object rather than as something attached to a structure. That reframe produces the question most buyers never reach: attached to what?<\/p>\n\n <h2>The Real Variable: How the Box Is Held, and Where the Weight Lands<\/h2>\n\n <p>There are three ways a dock box ends up attached to a dock. They fail differently, and most buyers pick one without noticing they picked it.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Free-Standing: What You’re Actually Relying On<\/h3>\n\n <p>Not attaching the box is the default. For a residential dock it is often fine, until it isn’t. An empty dock box weighs somewhere between 70 and 150 pounds depending on size and shell. That is heavy enough that you cannot casually move it. It is also light enough that wind-driven water, a rising lake, or two people with a truck can. Nothing about the box resists either.<\/p>\n\n <p>A second pressure goes unnoticed. Marinas generally require gear to be stowed rather than left loose on the walkway, because loose gear is a trip hazard on a narrow pier. A box that is stowed but unsecured satisfies the rule and not the reason for it.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Bolted Down: The Load Path From Lid to Substrate<\/h3>\n\n <p>Here is the number most buyers never see. A 130-gallon marine dock box from Lifetime carries two ratings, not one. <strong>900 lb when the weight is evenly distributed, and 250 lb as a concentrated load.<\/strong> Same box, same shell. The working capacity differs by a factor of 3.6 depending on how the load lands.<\/p>\n\n <p>That gap is the whole story of bolting a box to a deck. Weight in a dock box is rarely distributed. It is a toolbox in one corner, a spare anchor in the other, a cooler dropped in on Saturday. The distributed figure is the one printed on the marketing page. The concentrated figure is the one your deck actually receives.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"bp-sig bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"bp-sig-title\"><span class=\"bp-sig-title-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M3 3v18h18\"\/><path d=\"M18 17V9\"\/><path d=\"M13 17V5\"\/><path d=\"M8 17v-3\"\/><\/svg><\/span>The two numbers a dock box carries<\/p>\n <div class=\"bp-sig-grid\">\n <div class=\"bp-sig-item\">\n <span class=\"bp-sig-num\">900 lb<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-sig-label\">Evenly distributed rating, 130 gal marine dock box<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"bp-sig-item\">\n <span class=\"bp-sig-num\">250 lb<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-sig-label\">Concentrated load rating, same box<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"bp-sig-item\">\n <span class=\"bp-sig-num\">70–150 lb<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-sig-label\">Empty weight of a typical fiberglass or polyethylene dock box<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"bp-sig-item\">\n <span class=\"bp-sig-num\">200 lb<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-sig-label\">Working capacity of one 500 × 500 mm flotation cube<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p>From there the arithmetic is straightforward, and worth doing before you drill. Floats are rated by area rather than by unit. On the modular HDPE cubes this type of dock is built from, the published figures run from 200 to 420 kg\/m². The low-profile cube is rated at 220 kg\/m². The standard cube is rated at 350 kg\/m². The 500 mm strengthened version carries 420 kg\/m². Take the standard cube. Its 350 kg\/m² is about 71.7 lb per square foot. A box loaded to its 900 lb distributed rating therefore asks for roughly 12.6 square feet of deck. That is about five of the 500 × 500 mm cubes directly beneath it.<\/p>\n\n <p>That is only half the calculation. The other half is what you are fastening into. A modular floating deck is not a continuous slab. It is cubes joined at their corners with pins and bolts through defined holes. Long pins handle a double-layer connection; bolts and cushion washers sit at the numbered corner positions where modules meet. The fastening points are indexable. That means you can choose which cubes a box’s weight lands on. On a solid dock that question does not exist. On a floating one it is the entire decision.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Hung Off the Side: Trading Walkway Width for a Moment Arm<\/h3>\n\n <p>If walkway space is the constraint, the market’s answer is to move the box off the deck. Bracket kits suspend a dock box over the water and raise it a few inches above the deck. Triangular boxes are designed specifically for “over the water” installation, so the box stops consuming walkway. It is a real solution to a real problem.<\/p>\n\n <p>It also moves the load. A box hung off the edge puts its weight on an arm rather than a footprint. That edge is already the zone taking the traffic of people stepping on and off. Confirm two things before you hang anything. The first is the bracket’s rated capacity against the box’s fully loaded weight. The second is whether the hanging position is the same stretch of edge your fenders need. On a narrow dock those two claims compete for the same few inches.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"rich-table-wrap bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"rich-table-title\">How each fixing method behaves<\/p>\n <table class=\"rich-table\">\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"col\">Metodo<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">What it relies on<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">Where it breaks down<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td>Free-standing<\/td>\n <td>Friction and the box’s own weight<\/td>\n <td>Surge, theft, and rising water; nothing resists movement<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Through-bolted<\/td>\n <td>The substrate beneath the footprint<\/td>\n <td>Concentrated loads on a substrate rated for distributed ones; drilled holes in a sealed flotation body<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Side-hung<\/td>\n <td>A bracket and the edge structure<\/td>\n <td>Moment arm at the heaviest-traffic edge; competes with fenders for the same edge<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2>Where Each Fix Stops Working: Box Position × Dock Type<\/h2>\n\n <p>Every published recommendation about mounting a dock box carries an unstated assumption. That includes the step-by-step guides box manufacturers put out. All of them assume the dock is fixed: timber, steel or concrete, standing still while the water moves up and down beside it. The assumption is reasonable for most docks. It is also why the floating case reads as a gap rather than a disagreement.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"bp-table-wrap bd-reveal\">\n <table class=\"bp-matrix\">\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"col\">Box position<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">Fixed dock (timber \/ steel \/ concrete)<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">Floating dock (modular cubes)<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">What to confirm first<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td>Free-standing<\/td>\n <td>Works. The usual residential default.<\/td>\n <td>Works, with a known cost: the box moves with the deck and can be pushed off it.<\/td>\n <td>Whether there is any point on the deck you can lash to at all<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Through-bolted<\/td>\n <td>Works. Ordinary carpentry and marine hardware.<\/td>\n <td><strong>Splits here.<\/strong> Drilling a sealed flotation body removes buoyancy and risks the air chamber.<\/td>\n <td>Which cubes sit under the box position, and whether the box can use reserved pin and bolt holes instead of new ones<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Side-hung<\/td>\n <td>Works. Bracket kits are sold for this.<\/td>\n <td>Works, with the moment arm added at the busiest edge.<\/td>\n <td>The bracket’s rated capacity, and whether the box and the fenders want the same section of edge<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Integrated with a power pedestal, fish station or hose hanger<\/td>\n <td>Works. Pedestals are routinely mounted on the box itself.<\/td>\n <td>Works, but weights stack: the box becomes the base for the second and third fixture.<\/td>\n <td>The combined weight of everything sharing those cubes<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Rows, at marina scale<\/td>\n <td>Works. Standardizing one model across a dock is common practice.<\/td>\n <td>Works, but it is a whole-row calculation, not a per-box one.<\/td>\n <td>Total row weight against the deck’s remaining buoyancy margin, and who owns and insures each box<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/div>\n\n <h3>Fixed Docks: What the Standard Advice Assumes<\/h3>\n\n <p>On a fixed dock the problems are the ordinary ones that come with a structure standing in fluctuating water. The pile line a box can foul against. Corrosion finding fastener heads. The tide range that decides whether a lid opens cleanly at low water. Ordinary problems, ordinary answers, and the published guides cover them.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Floating Docks: Why the Standard Advice Breaks<\/h3>\n\n <p>Three things change at once when the deck floats.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>The substrate moves.<\/strong> A floating dock rises and falls with the water. “Fixed” can therefore only mean fixed to the float array or fixed to a pile. You cannot fasten a floating box to the shore and call it done. Among the anchoring approaches the industry supplies for floating docks, the pile-based ones work because a pile is the one component that does not move with the water. That makes the pile the most reliable anchor point on the whole dock. It also makes the pile guide, the collar that lets the deck slide up and down it, the natural place to start looking.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>The body you are drilling into is sealed.<\/strong> Each flotation cube is a closed hollow body. Every hole drilled through one takes buoyancy out of the system. A hole that reaches the air chamber risks it outright. On a timber deck, a screw hole is just a screw hole.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>The layout is discrete.<\/strong> The deck is an assembly of cubes rather than a continuous surface. So you are choosing the cubes a box’s weight lands on, not just the box’s position. More control than a fixed dock offers, and more responsibility.<\/p>\n\n <p>One more number to hold while you place the box. A modular floating deck is treated as stable to walk on at three cubes wide. On a 500 mm cube that comes to roughly five feet. Set a 22-inch-deep box on that walkway and you have redefined it.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"bp-space bd-reveal\">\n <span class=\"bp-space-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M21.3 15.3a2.4 2.4 0 0 1 0 3.4l-2.6 2.6a2.4 2.4 0 0 1-3.4 0L2.7 8.7a2.4 2.4 0 0 1 0-3.4l2.6-2.6a2.4 2.4 0 0 1 3.4 0Z\"\/><path d=\"m14.5 12.5 2-2\"\/><path d=\"m11.5 9.5 2-2\"\/><path d=\"m8.5 6.5 2-2\"\/><path d=\"m17.5 15.5 2-2\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"bp-space-body\">\n <p class=\"bp-space-title\">What the walkway can spare<\/p>\n <div class=\"bp-space-figures\">\n <div class=\"bp-space-fig\">\n <span class=\"bp-space-num\">3 cubes<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-space-unit\">width treated as stable to walk on — about 5 ft on a 500 mm cube<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"bp-space-fig\">\n <span class=\"bp-space-num\">22 in<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-space-unit\">depth of a typical low-profile box set on that walkway<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p><strong>Who owns the box.<\/strong> On a rented slip or a marina berth, the box may belong to the marina rather than the slipholder. A slipholder’s policy may not cover it. Settle that with the marina before you buy, not after. It changes whether you are choosing a box for yourself or specifying one for a facility.<\/p>\n\n <h2>Choosing the Box Itself: Material, Footprint, and What to Confirm First<\/h2>\n\n <p>With the interface settled, the box comparison becomes ordinary, and much shorter.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>Material.<\/strong> Three shells dominate, and they fail in different places rather than ranking on one scale. Fiberglass is the heaviest. It is also the only one that can be repaired cosmetically rather than replaced, and it holds a gelcoat finish for decades, which is why marinas standardize on it. Rotomolded polyethylene is molded in one piece, the lightest and cheapest. Its weak points are lid stiffness and hinge hardware on low-cost units, and a well-built one is genuinely durable. Lifetime’s 130-gallon marine box is this type. Aluminum is the lightest for its volume and the strongest. It is also the wrong choice where a metal surface in full sun is a safety issue: a 79-inch aluminum box weighs about 112 lb and will be hot.<\/p>\n\n <p>Each is the wrong answer somewhere. Fiberglass, when the box has to move seasonally or the deck’s load margin is tight, because you pay that extra weight in buoyancy. Polyethylene, when it will be sat on hard and often or needs to open smoothly for twenty years. Aluminum, when it sits where children climb.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>Footprint and profile.<\/strong> Profile comes first. Low-profile boxes protect walkway and double as seating. High-profile boxes hold things that stand up. Length should be reverse-engineered from the slip, not from the capacity label. And a warning on units: this category does not share one. You will see capacity in gallons, external size in inches, and volume in cubic feet, sometimes on the same supplier’s shelf. Compare external footprints.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"bp-trap bd-reveal\">\n <span class=\"bp-trap-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"m21.73 18-8-14a2 2 0 0 0-3.48 0l-8 14A2 2 0 0 0 4 21h16a2 2 0 0 0 1.73-3\"\/><path d=\"M12 9v4\"\/><path d=\"M12 17h.01\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <p class=\"bp-trap-text\"><strong>The unit trap:<\/strong> capacity is quoted in gallons, external size in inches, volume in cubic feet — sometimes by the same supplier. Compare external footprints, never capacity labels.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <p><strong>Price.<\/strong> Across two US suppliers, fiberglass dock boxes span roughly $350 to $2,350. What separates the ends is hardware and lid structure, not size: 316 stainless gas shocks, continuous piano hinges, a locking hasp, and dual vents that keep humidity from condensing inside. Those decide whether the box still opens easily in year eight.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>Then check these, in this order.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"rich-checklist bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"rich-checklist-title\"><span class=\"rich-checklist-title-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"m3 17 2 2 4-4\"\/><path d=\"m3 7 2 2 4-4\"\/><path d=\"M13 6h8\"\/><path d=\"M13 12h8\"\/><path d=\"M13 18h8\"\/><\/svg><\/span>Before you buy<\/p>\n <ul class=\"rich-checklist-list\">\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Measure the walkway: set the box’s depth against the clear width you need to walk past it.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Locate the position, then identify exactly what sits underneath it.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Look up the buoyancy rating of those floats and confirm it is a per-area figure, then divide the loaded weight by it.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Find the existing fastening points (reserved pin and bolt holes, connection corners, rail posts, a pile) before deciding any new hole is necessary.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Separate the box’s empty weight from its loaded weight, and check the bracket or fastener against the loaded figure.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Confirm the lid’s seal and hinge are serviceable parts you can replace, not a bonded assembly.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">If the slip is rented, settle ownership and insurance with the marina first.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2>If You Sell or Specify Docks: What Changes in the Slip You Hand Over<\/h2>\n\n <p>Everything above points at one commercial fact. In this category the comparable part is fully catalogued. Material, capacity, price: all searchable in an afternoon. The part that decides whether a customer’s box survives has no catalogue at all. There is no listing you can shop for “will this hold on my deck.”<\/p>\n\n <p>That leaves a question with whoever hands over the slip. The first thing a new floating dock owner asks about is rarely the handrail or the cleat. It is where their gear goes. A dealer holding only a box catalogue answers that from scratch every time. Most of that catalogue is designed against fixed-dock assumptions, at freight and lead times that do not match a container schedule. The answer fits in three lines at the quotation stage: the box position, the buoyancy rating of the cubes beneath it, and the fastening points available there.<\/p>\n\n <p>The reverse holds too. Selling a storage box as a generic add-on, and assuming the customer will work out the mounting, is how the failures above reach a dock. The published instructions assume a fixed dock. Follow them onto a floating one and every hole you drill is drawn against the deck’s buoyancy.<\/p>\n\n <p>Hisea Dock starts that conversation at the deck. We don’t make dock boxes — we make the deck one sits on, which is the half of the problem a box’s own instructions leave out. Our modular HDPE floats carry published area ratings from 200 to 420 kg per square metre, depending on float type: 220 for the low-profile cube, 350 for the standard, 420 for the 500 mm strengthened version. Each cube carries a defined fastening set: threaded end caps, corner pin and bolt positions, and 19 mm lugs. A box position can therefore be laid out against the same grid the deck is assembled on, rather than guessed at afterward. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/faq\/\">anchoring methods we supply and the warranty that covers them<\/a> are published. If you are choosing the dock as well as the box, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/contact-us\/\">we are happy to talk it through<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"bp-cta-end bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"bp-cta-end-title\"><span class=\"bp-cta-end-title-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><rect width=\"20\" height=\"16\" x=\"2\" y=\"4\" rx=\"2\"\/><path d=\"m22 7-8.97 5.7a1.94 1.94 0 0 1-2.06 0L2 7\"\/><\/svg><\/span>The box is the easy half — the deck under it is not<\/p>\n <p class=\"bp-cta-end-sub\">Hisea Dock makes modular HDPE floating docks, not dock boxes — the deck a box gets bolted to, with published buoyancy ratings and moulded-in fastening points. If the dock itself is what you need, we are glad to hear from you.<\/p>\n <a class=\"bp-cta-end-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_self\">Contatto Hisea Dock<svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M5 12h14\"\/><path d=\"m12 5 7 7-7 7\"\/><\/svg><\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2 class=\"bd-refs-heading\">References<\/h2>\n\n <ol class=\"bd-refs\">\n <li>The Hull Truth. “Looking for Dock Box Suggestions.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehulltruth.com\/boating-forum\/1141588-looking-dock-box-suggestions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehulltruth.com\/boating-forum\/1141588-looking-dock-box-suggestions.html<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Club Sea Ray. “Dock Box Suggestions.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubsearay.com\/threads\/dock-box-suggestions.60428\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.clubsearay.com\/threads\/dock-box-suggestions.60428\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “Hisea Dock.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “Modular Floating Dock Cubes.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/modular-floating-dock-cubes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/modular-floating-dock-cubes\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “Floats, Accessories, Tools.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/products\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “FAQ.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/faq\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “Contact Us.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/contact-us\/<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n <\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/body><\/html>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Dock Box: What Actually Decides the Right One Best Dock Box: What Actually Decides the Right One If you are comparing dock boxes right now,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [...]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Best Dock Box: Sizes, Materials & Mounting Guide","_seopress_titles_desc":"Choose the right dock box by comparing storage size, materials, hardware, weight distribution and mounting needs for fixed or floating docks.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mml-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145472,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145467\/revisions\/145472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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}\n .bd-post .bp-cta-end { padding: var(--pad-standard); }\n }\n\n @media (max-width: 479px) {\n .bd-post h1 { font-size: 22px; }\n .bd-post h2 { font-size: 20px; }\n .bd-post h3 { font-size: 18px; }\n .bd-post .bp-sig-num { font-size: 22px; }\n .bd-post .bp-sig-grid { grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr); }\n .bd-post .bp-space-figures { flex-direction: column; gap: 12px; }\n .bd-post .bp-cta-end-btn { width: 100%; justify-content: center; }\n }\n <\/style>\n\n <article class=\"bd-post-article\">\n <h1>Best Dock Box: What Actually Decides the Right One<\/h1>\n\n <p>If you are comparing dock boxes right now, the specifications in front of you probably look like this: shell material, capacity in gallons, price. None of them will decide whether the box survives its first real weather. What decides that is where the box sits and what holds it down. Almost nobody publishes a number for that.<\/p>\n\n <p>This guide works backwards from the failure. It starts with what happens to a box after it lands on a dock, then returns to the box itself. By the end, the choice you make is anchored to your dock rather than to a spec sheet.<\/p>\n\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Best-Dock-Box.webp\" style=\"width: 512px; height: 384px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; border-radius: 12px; margin: 30px auto; display: block; box-shadow: 10px 10px 60px 0px rgba(210, 221, 224, 0.35); transition: all 0.3s ease; cursor: pointer;\" onmouseover=\"this.style.transform='translateY(-5px) scale(1.03)'; this.style.boxShadow='15px 25px 80px 0px rgba(210, 221, 224, 0.45)'\" onmouseout=\"this.style.transform='translateY(0) scale(1)'; this.style.boxShadow='10px 10px 60px 0px rgba(210, 221, 224, 0.35)'\"> \n\n <h2>What a Dock Box Is — and What the Name Doesn’t Settle<\/h2>\n\n <p>A dock box is a weather-sealed storage chest that lives on a dock or in a slip. It holds the gear you would otherwise haul back and forth or leave scattered on the deck. Mooring lines, fenders, life jackets, shore power cables, a hose, a deck brush, fishing gear. Physically it is a close relative of the patio deck box and the job-site gang box. The resemblance stops there. Only one of the three is built to sit through salt spray on a surface that moves.<\/p>\n\n <p>One clarification, because supply catalogues use the term loosely. “Dock box” occasionally turns up in supplier listings for the flotation cubes a floating dock is assembled from. A complete floating dock kit is sometimes sold as a “dock-in-a-box.” Neither is what this article covers.<\/p>\n\n <p>Which raises the question that decides everything downstream. The box will sit on a dock. So what is it sitting on, and what is holding it there?<\/p>\n\n <h2>What Actually Goes Wrong Once It’s on the Dock<\/h2>\n\n <p>The published complaints cluster tightly. Almost none of them have anything to do with the shell material a buyer spends the most time weighing.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"rich-multicol bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-title\"><span class=\"rich-multicol-title-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"m21.73 18-8-14a2 2 0 0 0-3.48 0l-8 14A2 2 0 0 0 4 21h16a2 2 0 0 0 1.73-3\"\/><path d=\"M12 9v4\"\/><path d=\"M12 17h.01\"\/><\/svg><\/span>What actually fails, and where it comes from<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Loss in place<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">The box is simply gone after a storm. One owner reported coming back from fishing to find an 8 ft box missing, presumed either stolen or floated away.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">It was never attached to anything. A box light enough to lift is light enough for a surge to move.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Break-in<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">Not one box but every box on the dock, pried open the same night.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">The lock is the last link in a chain. The chain starts with whether the box can be picked up and carried.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Water ingress<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">Rust streaks, musty contents, a lid that no longer seats.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">The lid seal is the only moving joint in the product, and it lives its whole life in sun and rain.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Hardware failure<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">A lid that is hard to open, a hasp that no longer catches.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">Gas shocks, hinges and hasps are the parts built to wear out. Manufacturers sell them as replacement parts for a reason.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Material breakdown<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">Cracking panels, a warped lid.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">Low-cost units skip the wall structure and UV stabilization that keep a lid flat.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row\">\n <span class=\"rich-multicol-row-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"10\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12\" y1=\"8\" y2=\"12\"\/><line x1=\"12\" x2=\"12.01\" y1=\"16\" y2=\"16\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"rich-multicol-row-body\">\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-head\">Transit damage<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text\">A lid that arrives scratched or dented.<\/p>\n <p class=\"rich-multicol-row-text rich-multicol-row-src\">The bigger the box, the harder it is to deliver intact. That is itself a constraint on shopping by size alone.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p>Six symptoms, and most describe one problem. The box was treated as an object rather than as something attached to a structure. That reframe produces the question most buyers never reach: attached to what?<\/p>\n\n <h2>The Real Variable: How the Box Is Held, and Where the Weight Lands<\/h2>\n\n <p>There are three ways a dock box ends up attached to a dock. They fail differently, and most buyers pick one without noticing they picked it.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Free-Standing: What You’re Actually Relying On<\/h3>\n\n <p>Not attaching the box is the default. For a residential dock it is often fine, until it isn’t. An empty dock box weighs somewhere between 70 and 150 pounds depending on size and shell. That is heavy enough that you cannot casually move it. It is also light enough that wind-driven water, a rising lake, or two people with a truck can. Nothing about the box resists either.<\/p>\n\n <p>A second pressure goes unnoticed. Marinas generally require gear to be stowed rather than left loose on the walkway, because loose gear is a trip hazard on a narrow pier. A box that is stowed but unsecured satisfies the rule and not the reason for it.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Bolted Down: The Load Path From Lid to Substrate<\/h3>\n\n <p>Here is the number most buyers never see. A 130-gallon marine dock box from Lifetime carries two ratings, not one. <strong>900 lb when the weight is evenly distributed, and 250 lb as a concentrated load.<\/strong> Same box, same shell. The working capacity differs by a factor of 3.6 depending on how the load lands.<\/p>\n\n <p>That gap is the whole story of bolting a box to a deck. Weight in a dock box is rarely distributed. It is a toolbox in one corner, a spare anchor in the other, a cooler dropped in on Saturday. The distributed figure is the one printed on the marketing page. The concentrated figure is the one your deck actually receives.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"bp-sig bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"bp-sig-title\"><span class=\"bp-sig-title-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M3 3v18h18\"\/><path d=\"M18 17V9\"\/><path d=\"M13 17V5\"\/><path d=\"M8 17v-3\"\/><\/svg><\/span>The two numbers a dock box carries<\/p>\n <div class=\"bp-sig-grid\">\n <div class=\"bp-sig-item\">\n <span class=\"bp-sig-num\">900 lb<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-sig-label\">Evenly distributed rating, 130 gal marine dock box<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"bp-sig-item\">\n <span class=\"bp-sig-num\">250 lb<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-sig-label\">Concentrated load rating, same box<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"bp-sig-item\">\n <span class=\"bp-sig-num\">70–150 lb<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-sig-label\">Empty weight of a typical fiberglass or polyethylene dock box<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"bp-sig-item\">\n <span class=\"bp-sig-num\">200 lb<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-sig-label\">Working capacity of one 500 × 500 mm flotation cube<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p>From there the arithmetic is straightforward, and worth doing before you drill. Floats are rated by area rather than by unit. On the modular HDPE cubes this type of dock is built from, the published figures run from 200 to 420 kg\/m². The low-profile cube is rated at 220 kg\/m². The standard cube is rated at 350 kg\/m². The 500 mm strengthened version carries 420 kg\/m². Take the standard cube. Its 350 kg\/m² is about 71.7 lb per square foot. A box loaded to its 900 lb distributed rating therefore asks for roughly 12.6 square feet of deck. That is about five of the 500 × 500 mm cubes directly beneath it.<\/p>\n\n <p>That is only half the calculation. The other half is what you are fastening into. A modular floating deck is not a continuous slab. It is cubes joined at their corners with pins and bolts through defined holes. Long pins handle a double-layer connection; bolts and cushion washers sit at the numbered corner positions where modules meet. The fastening points are indexable. That means you can choose which cubes a box’s weight lands on. On a solid dock that question does not exist. On a floating one it is the entire decision.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Hung Off the Side: Trading Walkway Width for a Moment Arm<\/h3>\n\n <p>If walkway space is the constraint, the market’s answer is to move the box off the deck. Bracket kits suspend a dock box over the water and raise it a few inches above the deck. Triangular boxes are designed specifically for “over the water” installation, so the box stops consuming walkway. It is a real solution to a real problem.<\/p>\n\n <p>It also moves the load. A box hung off the edge puts its weight on an arm rather than a footprint. That edge is already the zone taking the traffic of people stepping on and off. Confirm two things before you hang anything. The first is the bracket’s rated capacity against the box’s fully loaded weight. The second is whether the hanging position is the same stretch of edge your fenders need. On a narrow dock those two claims compete for the same few inches.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"rich-table-wrap bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"rich-table-title\">How each fixing method behaves<\/p>\n <table class=\"rich-table\">\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"col\">Metodo<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">What it relies on<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">Where it breaks down<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td>Free-standing<\/td>\n <td>Friction and the box’s own weight<\/td>\n <td>Surge, theft, and rising water; nothing resists movement<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Through-bolted<\/td>\n <td>The substrate beneath the footprint<\/td>\n <td>Concentrated loads on a substrate rated for distributed ones; drilled holes in a sealed flotation body<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Side-hung<\/td>\n <td>A bracket and the edge structure<\/td>\n <td>Moment arm at the heaviest-traffic edge; competes with fenders for the same edge<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2>Where Each Fix Stops Working: Box Position × Dock Type<\/h2>\n\n <p>Every published recommendation about mounting a dock box carries an unstated assumption. That includes the step-by-step guides box manufacturers put out. All of them assume the dock is fixed: timber, steel or concrete, standing still while the water moves up and down beside it. The assumption is reasonable for most docks. It is also why the floating case reads as a gap rather than a disagreement.<\/p>\n\n <div class=\"bp-table-wrap bd-reveal\">\n <table class=\"bp-matrix\">\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th scope=\"col\">Box position<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">Fixed dock (timber \/ steel \/ concrete)<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">Floating dock (modular cubes)<\/th>\n <th scope=\"col\">What to confirm first<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td>Free-standing<\/td>\n <td>Works. The usual residential default.<\/td>\n <td>Works, with a known cost: the box moves with the deck and can be pushed off it.<\/td>\n <td>Whether there is any point on the deck you can lash to at all<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Through-bolted<\/td>\n <td>Works. Ordinary carpentry and marine hardware.<\/td>\n <td><strong>Splits here.<\/strong> Drilling a sealed flotation body removes buoyancy and risks the air chamber.<\/td>\n <td>Which cubes sit under the box position, and whether the box can use reserved pin and bolt holes instead of new ones<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Side-hung<\/td>\n <td>Works. Bracket kits are sold for this.<\/td>\n <td>Works, with the moment arm added at the busiest edge.<\/td>\n <td>The bracket’s rated capacity, and whether the box and the fenders want the same section of edge<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Integrated with a power pedestal, fish station or hose hanger<\/td>\n <td>Works. Pedestals are routinely mounted on the box itself.<\/td>\n <td>Works, but weights stack: the box becomes the base for the second and third fixture.<\/td>\n <td>The combined weight of everything sharing those cubes<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Rows, at marina scale<\/td>\n <td>Works. Standardizing one model across a dock is common practice.<\/td>\n <td>Works, but it is a whole-row calculation, not a per-box one.<\/td>\n <td>Total row weight against the deck’s remaining buoyancy margin, and who owns and insures each box<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/div>\n\n <h3>Fixed Docks: What the Standard Advice Assumes<\/h3>\n\n <p>On a fixed dock the problems are the ordinary ones that come with a structure standing in fluctuating water. The pile line a box can foul against. Corrosion finding fastener heads. The tide range that decides whether a lid opens cleanly at low water. Ordinary problems, ordinary answers, and the published guides cover them.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Floating Docks: Why the Standard Advice Breaks<\/h3>\n\n <p>Three things change at once when the deck floats.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>The substrate moves.<\/strong> A floating dock rises and falls with the water. “Fixed” can therefore only mean fixed to the float array or fixed to a pile. You cannot fasten a floating box to the shore and call it done. Among the anchoring approaches the industry supplies for floating docks, the pile-based ones work because a pile is the one component that does not move with the water. That makes the pile the most reliable anchor point on the whole dock. It also makes the pile guide, the collar that lets the deck slide up and down it, the natural place to start looking.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>The body you are drilling into is sealed.<\/strong> Each flotation cube is a closed hollow body. Every hole drilled through one takes buoyancy out of the system. A hole that reaches the air chamber risks it outright. On a timber deck, a screw hole is just a screw hole.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>The layout is discrete.<\/strong> The deck is an assembly of cubes rather than a continuous surface. So you are choosing the cubes a box’s weight lands on, not just the box’s position. More control than a fixed dock offers, and more responsibility.<\/p>\n\n <p>One more number to hold while you place the box. A modular floating deck is treated as stable to walk on at three cubes wide. On a 500 mm cube that comes to roughly five feet. Set a 22-inch-deep box on that walkway and you have redefined it.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"bp-space bd-reveal\">\n <span class=\"bp-space-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M21.3 15.3a2.4 2.4 0 0 1 0 3.4l-2.6 2.6a2.4 2.4 0 0 1-3.4 0L2.7 8.7a2.4 2.4 0 0 1 0-3.4l2.6-2.6a2.4 2.4 0 0 1 3.4 0Z\"\/><path d=\"m14.5 12.5 2-2\"\/><path d=\"m11.5 9.5 2-2\"\/><path d=\"m8.5 6.5 2-2\"\/><path d=\"m17.5 15.5 2-2\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <div class=\"bp-space-body\">\n <p class=\"bp-space-title\">What the walkway can spare<\/p>\n <div class=\"bp-space-figures\">\n <div class=\"bp-space-fig\">\n <span class=\"bp-space-num\">3 cubes<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-space-unit\">width treated as stable to walk on — about 5 ft on a 500 mm cube<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"bp-space-fig\">\n <span class=\"bp-space-num\">22 in<\/span>\n <span class=\"bp-space-unit\">depth of a typical low-profile box set on that walkway<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p><strong>Who owns the box.<\/strong> On a rented slip or a marina berth, the box may belong to the marina rather than the slipholder. A slipholder’s policy may not cover it. Settle that with the marina before you buy, not after. It changes whether you are choosing a box for yourself or specifying one for a facility.<\/p>\n\n <h2>Choosing the Box Itself: Material, Footprint, and What to Confirm First<\/h2>\n\n <p>With the interface settled, the box comparison becomes ordinary, and much shorter.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>Material.<\/strong> Three shells dominate, and they fail in different places rather than ranking on one scale. Fiberglass is the heaviest. It is also the only one that can be repaired cosmetically rather than replaced, and it holds a gelcoat finish for decades, which is why marinas standardize on it. Rotomolded polyethylene is molded in one piece, the lightest and cheapest. Its weak points are lid stiffness and hinge hardware on low-cost units, and a well-built one is genuinely durable. Lifetime’s 130-gallon marine box is this type. Aluminum is the lightest for its volume and the strongest. It is also the wrong choice where a metal surface in full sun is a safety issue: a 79-inch aluminum box weighs about 112 lb and will be hot.<\/p>\n\n <p>Each is the wrong answer somewhere. Fiberglass, when the box has to move seasonally or the deck’s load margin is tight, because you pay that extra weight in buoyancy. Polyethylene, when it will be sat on hard and often or needs to open smoothly for twenty years. Aluminum, when it sits where children climb.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>Footprint and profile.<\/strong> Profile comes first. Low-profile boxes protect walkway and double as seating. High-profile boxes hold things that stand up. Length should be reverse-engineered from the slip, not from the capacity label. And a warning on units: this category does not share one. You will see capacity in gallons, external size in inches, and volume in cubic feet, sometimes on the same supplier’s shelf. Compare external footprints.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"bp-trap bd-reveal\">\n <span class=\"bp-trap-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"m21.73 18-8-14a2 2 0 0 0-3.48 0l-8 14A2 2 0 0 0 4 21h16a2 2 0 0 0 1.73-3\"\/><path d=\"M12 9v4\"\/><path d=\"M12 17h.01\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <p class=\"bp-trap-text\"><strong>The unit trap:<\/strong> capacity is quoted in gallons, external size in inches, volume in cubic feet — sometimes by the same supplier. Compare external footprints, never capacity labels.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <p><strong>Price.<\/strong> Across two US suppliers, fiberglass dock boxes span roughly $350 to $2,350. What separates the ends is hardware and lid structure, not size: 316 stainless gas shocks, continuous piano hinges, a locking hasp, and dual vents that keep humidity from condensing inside. Those decide whether the box still opens easily in year eight.<\/p>\n\n <p><strong>Then check these, in this order.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"rich-checklist bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"rich-checklist-title\"><span class=\"rich-checklist-title-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"m3 17 2 2 4-4\"\/><path d=\"m3 7 2 2 4-4\"\/><path d=\"M13 6h8\"\/><path d=\"M13 12h8\"\/><path d=\"M13 18h8\"\/><\/svg><\/span>Before you buy<\/p>\n <ul class=\"rich-checklist-list\">\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Measure the walkway: set the box’s depth against the clear width you need to walk past it.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Locate the position, then identify exactly what sits underneath it.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Look up the buoyancy rating of those floats and confirm it is a per-area figure, then divide the loaded weight by it.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Find the existing fastening points (reserved pin and bolt holes, connection corners, rail posts, a pile) before deciding any new hole is necessary.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Separate the box’s empty weight from its loaded weight, and check the bracket or fastener against the loaded figure.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">Confirm the lid’s seal and hinge are serviceable parts you can replace, not a bonded assembly.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"rich-checklist-item\">\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M20 6 9 17l-5-5\"\/><\/svg><\/span>\n <span class=\"rich-checklist-item-text\">If the slip is rented, settle ownership and insurance with the marina first.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2>If You Sell or Specify Docks: What Changes in the Slip You Hand Over<\/h2>\n\n <p>Everything above points at one commercial fact. In this category the comparable part is fully catalogued. Material, capacity, price: all searchable in an afternoon. The part that decides whether a customer’s box survives has no catalogue at all. There is no listing you can shop for “will this hold on my deck.”<\/p>\n\n <p>That leaves a question with whoever hands over the slip. The first thing a new floating dock owner asks about is rarely the handrail or the cleat. It is where their gear goes. A dealer holding only a box catalogue answers that from scratch every time. Most of that catalogue is designed against fixed-dock assumptions, at freight and lead times that do not match a container schedule. The answer fits in three lines at the quotation stage: the box position, the buoyancy rating of the cubes beneath it, and the fastening points available there.<\/p>\n\n <p>The reverse holds too. Selling a storage box as a generic add-on, and assuming the customer will work out the mounting, is how the failures above reach a dock. The published instructions assume a fixed dock. Follow them onto a floating one and every hole you drill is drawn against the deck’s buoyancy.<\/p>\n\n <p>Hisea Dock starts that conversation at the deck. We don’t make dock boxes — we make the deck one sits on, which is the half of the problem a box’s own instructions leave out. Our modular HDPE floats carry published area ratings from 200 to 420 kg per square metre, depending on float type: 220 for the low-profile cube, 350 for the standard, 420 for the 500 mm strengthened version. Each cube carries a defined fastening set: threaded end caps, corner pin and bolt positions, and 19 mm lugs. A box position can therefore be laid out against the same grid the deck is assembled on, rather than guessed at afterward. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/faq\/\">anchoring methods we supply and the warranty that covers them<\/a> are published. If you are choosing the dock as well as the box, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/contact-us\/\">we are happy to talk it through<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n \n <div class=\"bp-cta-end bd-reveal\">\n <p class=\"bp-cta-end-title\"><span class=\"bp-cta-end-title-icon\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><rect width=\"20\" height=\"16\" x=\"2\" y=\"4\" rx=\"2\"\/><path d=\"m22 7-8.97 5.7a1.94 1.94 0 0 1-2.06 0L2 7\"\/><\/svg><\/span>The box is the easy half — the deck under it is not<\/p>\n <p class=\"bp-cta-end-sub\">Hisea Dock makes modular HDPE floating docks, not dock boxes — the deck a box gets bolted to, with published buoyancy ratings and moulded-in fastening points. If the dock itself is what you need, we are glad to hear from you.<\/p>\n <a class=\"bp-cta-end-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_self\">Contatto Hisea Dock<svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M5 12h14\"\/><path d=\"m12 5 7 7-7 7\"\/><\/svg><\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <h2 class=\"bd-refs-heading\">References<\/h2>\n\n <ol class=\"bd-refs\">\n <li>The Hull Truth. “Looking for Dock Box Suggestions.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehulltruth.com\/boating-forum\/1141588-looking-dock-box-suggestions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehulltruth.com\/boating-forum\/1141588-looking-dock-box-suggestions.html<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Club Sea Ray. “Dock Box Suggestions.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubsearay.com\/threads\/dock-box-suggestions.60428\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.clubsearay.com\/threads\/dock-box-suggestions.60428\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “Hisea Dock.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “Modular Floating Dock Cubes.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/modular-floating-dock-cubes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/modular-floating-dock-cubes\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “Floats, Accessories, Tools.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/products\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “FAQ.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/faq\/<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Hisea Dock. “Contact Us.” <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/contact-us\/<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n <\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/body><\/html>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Dock Box: What Actually Decides the Right One Best Dock Box: What Actually Decides the Right One If you are comparing dock boxes right now,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [...]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Best Dock Box: Sizes, Materials & Mounting Guide","_seopress_titles_desc":"Choose the right dock box by comparing storage size, materials, hardware, weight distribution and mounting needs for fixed or floating docks.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mml-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145472,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145467\/revisions\/145472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiseadock.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}