Custom Boathouses
High end boathouses designed for entertaining, outdoor kitchens, wet bars, audio systems, lighting, boat lifts, sailboat lifts, catamaran lifts, and year round waterfront living.
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Waterfront structures built for pressure, soil, water, and time.
Shoretech designs and builds serious marine construction projects for residential waterfronts, commercial properties, marinas, subdivisions, resorts, municipalities, parks, and public access sites — on Lake Livingston, Lake Conroe, Sam Rayburn, and waterfronts across Texas and Louisiana.
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Who is the project for?
Shoretech works both sides of the water. Same crew, same standards — what changes is the drawings, the approvals, the phasing, and who signs them. Pick the side that fits; the rest of the page carries on below either way.
Residential
Private owners and families. Custom boathouses, boat docks and piers, lighter timber bulkheads, boat lifts, walkways and shoreline steps. One dock or the whole shoreline — planned as one system, not four separate jobs.
Residential Marine Services
Commercial
POA and HOA boards, subdivision and commercial developers, municipal and county government, state and national parks, and forestry. Heavy timber bulkheads, seawalls and retaining walls, public piers, boardwalks and community-scale shoreline. Work that goes to a board, a bid, or a purchasing agent.
Commercial & Municipal Marine40+
Years on the water
250+
Boathouses built
850+
Projects completed
TX & LA
Texas & Louisiana waterfronts
What Shoretech Builds
Residential beauty with commercial strength.
The best waterfront projects are not merely attractive. They are designed around water depth, soil conditions, backfill pressure, wind, access, intended use, material lifespan, and the realities of Texas and Gulf Coast environments.
Boat Docks & Piers
Boat docks, swim piers, fishing piers, and covered slips. We use nothing smaller than a full dimension rough hewn timber piling, so the substructure outlasts everything tied to it.
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Seawalls & Bulkheads
Seawall and bulkhead are two names for the same structure. Galvanized steel, vinyl, FRP composite, and heavy timber systems designed around exposure, tiebacks, backfill pressure, soil conditions, and water environment.
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Precision Dredging
Boat slip dredging, marina dredging, shoreline restoration, and subdivision lakefront improvement. Targeted small to medium dredging that pumps material for backfill and property elevation instead of hauling it out by truck.
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Commercial Marine
Marine construction for restaurants, marinas, waterfront entertainment areas, ship channel properties, municipal sites, resort properties, HOAs, POAs, and developers.
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Marina construction and renovation for resorts, POAs, municipalities, and commercial waterfronts — access piers, slip systems, and shoreline work sized for public traffic rather than a single family's boat.
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Ranch bridges, trail bridges, timber bridges, flood resistant bridge concepts, public access structures, and pile supported crossings for real field conditions.
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Marine Consulting
Site evaluation, material recommendations, construction planning, shoreline strategy, engineering coordination, and practical design guidance before major waterfront investment.
Residential Marine Services
Everything a waterfront home needs at the waterline: boathouses, boat docks, seawalls and bulkheads, lifts, walkways, and dredging to bring usable depth back to the slip.
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The Shoretech Difference
Not just built. Thought through.
Many marine failures begin below the surface, behind the wall, inside the substructure, or in assumptions about material strength. Shoretech evaluates the complete condition: water, soil, pressure, access, use, exposure, corrosion, and long term maintenance.
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Stronger substructures
Full dimensional timbers, heavier framing, better load paths, and serious structural thinking for boathouses, docks, bridges, and marine platforms.
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Bulkheads built for pressure
Deadmen, tiebacks, exposure, backfill pressure, drainage, and soil behavior are considered before choosing the right system for the site. It is also why Shoretech is currently the only contractor the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permits to build shoreline reinforcement on Lake Lewisville, through December 2027.
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Practical field innovation
From naturally cooler open gable boathouse designs to flood resistant bridge concepts, Shoretech designs around how the structure will actually perform.
Built for the Weather
What is under the roof decides what happens in a storm.
Dave's own account of the mornings after: he runs the shoreline by boat and finds his own work standing where other structures did not come through.
He offers that as testimony rather than a statistic, and it deserves to be read that way — no builder can promise a structure will survive a given storm. What these frames do show is method: primary joints made with bolts run clear through the timber and captured by a nut, corners triangulated so the frame cannot fold sideways, hardware chosen for preservative-treated wood that stays wet, and walls restrained by rods running back to anchors set well inland.
Materials Matter
The right system depends on the site.
Fresh water, salt water, sandy loam, Texas clay, roots, rock, corrosion, appearance, lifespan, and budget all change the answer. Shoretech helps clients choose the right material instead of forcing every project into the same solution.
Galvanized Steel
A strong choice for many fresh water applications, especially where roots, rocks, and difficult driving conditions may challenge lighter systems.
Vinyl
A common salt water and shoreline option where corrosion resistance, long life, and appearance are important.
FRP Composite
Higher end fiberglass resin systems for long term marine performance, including pile and sheet applications in demanding environments.
Heavy Timber
Used carefully and heavily, especially where appearance, tradition, or specific field conditions call for dimensional or round pile timber construction.
Quality Guarantee
We warranty what we build.
Shoretech is not an economy-level builder. We use only the best materials and build the longest-lasting projects — which is why we can offer the longest warranties you will find.
On large Texas and Louisiana lakes and reservoirs — Livingston, Rayburn, Conroe — and along the Gulf Coast, our guarantee typically runs 2 to 5 years depending on the project. On private ponds and small lakes it can extend to 10 years, because the building techniques and materials are the best available.
If you are looking to cut corners with the cheapest temporary fix — patching a wall to get a property sold to an unsuspecting buyer — we are not the right builder. That is not what we do. We are interested in building projects to last a lifetime where that is possible.
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Field work at the waterline.
A look at Shoretech work on the water: precision dredging barges, shoreline retention, custom piers, boathouse framing, and marina access built for real field conditions across Texas and Louisiana.
Where Shoretech Works
Texas and Louisiana waterfronts.
Shoretech builds across Texas, with most projects within roughly a 120-mile radius of Huntsville — the lakes, rivers, subdivisions, and Gulf Coast waterfronts of Southeast and East Texas — and selectively into Louisiana.
Lakes & Waterways
- Lake Livingston
- Lake Conroe
- Sam Rayburn Reservoir
- Lake Houston
- Houston County Lake
- Lake Palestine Cedar Creek Lake Richland-Chambers
- Lake Nacogdoches
- Trinity River
- San Jacinto River
- Gulf Coast
Cities & Regions
- Huntsville
- Conroe & Montgomery
- Livingston & Onalaska
- Coldspring & Trinity
- Crockett & Lovelady
- Madisonville
- Lufkin & Nacogdoches
- Cleveland & New Caney
- Greater Houston
- Bryan & College Station
Don't see your lake or town listed? Shoretech builds on 82 lakes across Texas and western Louisiana — each with its own page — and regularly travels for the right project beyond that list. Call Dave to confirm coverage for your waterfront.
See the 82 lakes we build onStart With a Conversation
Every waterfront project is site specific.
The most useful first step is to talk through the property, the shoreline, the water depth, the soil, the access, the intended use, and what the finished project needs to accomplish.