Our inventor, Andy Assinck, spent a cold fall day in Ontario removing docks for the Canadian winter. Ending up with swollen fingers and strained muscles he decided there must be a better way. He recognized the need for a dock coupler system that would be self-contained, self-supporting and self-aligning, allowing most cottagers to set-up & take-down their dock easily. Andy knew every pain point in the old system and over time created a solution:

The DockHinge.

Andy’s clever idea? “Made up of two integral parts; the "Hitch" is a gripping flange that retains an actuation bolt and locking tooth, and the "Hinge" is a flange which consists of an outer sleeve over an inner bushing and end plate washers on a fixed axis pin. This offers an extended range of motion and durability. It is the best dock coupler on the market.”