FLOATING BREAKWATERS
Breakwater Docks
CALMING THE WAVES
SF Marina’s floating breakwaters, measuring from 10′ to 32′ (3-9.8 m) wide, up to 12ft (3.7 m) high, offering superior protection. Attenuating waves and storm energy, with minimal environmental impact. Setting them apart from standard pontoons, the increased depth, mass, reinforcement strength, advanced connectors, and robust anchoring systems, allow them to efficiently absorb wave energy, while also serving as docking for all size vessels.
A floating breakwater is essential for protecting a marina from storms and waves – it is the foundation for a safe marina. First developed in the 1980’s, SF Marina’s floating breakwaters around the world have withstood extreme weather conditions, including typhoons and hurricanes, for over 40 years. Each breakwater is custom-built, with a reliable and cost effective anchoring plan to meet site-specific needs, ensuring resilience in the most challenging environments.
While all concrete docks attenuate waves, “floating breakwaters” are engineered to handle more demanding conditions with deeper wings that increase the draft.
1. Large Diameter Reinforced Mooring Rings: To accommodate chain size greater than 3 inches (76mm) diameter.
2. Structurally Integrated Interior Cast Pile Guides: Features energy- absorbing cushion blocks designed for high pile loads, paired with our proven safety cover system. Internal piles allow for unobstructed vessel berthing on both sides.
3. Advanced Coupling System: This patened cable system includes access wells with heavy steel plates, stainless steel receivers, high strength coupling wires, packed with anti-corrosive grease, and heavy rubber cylinders between the docks. Our unique center connectors and connector options allow the system to handle torsional loads and accommodate specific angles, and site connections and constraints.
Decades of advancement and technical acheivements have grown the SF Marina Systems line of floating breakwater products from 10ft (3m) wide to over 30ft (9.1m) wide, allowing larger, and longer (wave lengths) to be attenuated.
Our range of breakwaters
The SFBW1000
The geometry of this pontoons, in combination with our patented coupling and an advanced mooring system, makes our floating breakwater an excellent wave attenuator.
This pontoon has been developed gradually over the years. From smaller sizes in the beginning, now reaching the width of 26.2 ft (8 m), it is the largest model of floating breakwater on the market.
The breakwaters from SF MARINA are all-concrete pontoons with all the advantages of high stability and buoyancy. The all concrete and styrofoam construction of the pontoon produces a very high degree of buoyancy thus making it virtually unsinkable.
As a result of the use of high quality materials, coupled with a thorough manufacturing process, the pontoon enjoys a long life-span. Each standard pontoon is designed to accept electrical and water supply services.
Normally, the pontoons would be moored using chains and blocks.
This pontoons are first and foremost as a floating breakwater. However, they can be used universally where the potential of a pontoon having high stability and freeboard can be utilized
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The SFBW800
The geometry of this pontoons, in combination with our patented coupling and an advanced mooring system, makes our floating breakwater an excellent wave attenuator. This pontoon has been developed gradually over the years. From smaller sizes in the beginning, now reaching the width of 26.2 ft (8 m), it is the largest model of floating breakwater on the market.
The breakwaters from SF MARINA are all-concrete pontoons with all the advantages of high stability and buoyancy. The all concrete and styrofoam construction of the pontoon produces a very high degree of buoyancy thus making it virtually unsinkable. As a result of the use of high quality materials, coupled with a thorough manufacturing process, the pontoon enjoys a long life-span. Each standard pontoon is designed to accept electrical and water supply services.
Normally, the pontoons would be moored using chains and blocks. This pontoons are first and foremost as a floating breakwater. However, they can be used universally where the potential of a pontoon having high stability and freeboard can be utilized
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The SFBW600
The geometry of this pontoons, in combination with our patented coupling and an advanced mooring system, makes our floating breakwater an excellent wave attenuator. This pontoon has been developed gradually over the years. From smaller sizes in the beginning, now reaching the width of 19.7 ft (6 m), it is the largest model of floating breakwater on the market. The breakwaters from SF MARINA are all-concrete pontoons with all the advantages of high stability and buoyancy. The all concrete and styrofoam construction of the pontoon produces a very high degree of buoyancy thus making it virtually unsinkable. As a result of the use of high quality materials, in combination with a thorough manufacturing process, the pontoon enjoys a long life-span. Each standard pontoon is designed to accept electrical and water supply services. Normally, the pontoons would be moored using chains and blocks. This pontoons are first and foremost as a floating breakwater. However, they can be used universally where the potential of a pontoon having high stability and freeboard can be utilized.
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The SFBW500
Series is a 5-meter wide super strong breakwater, often found as the outer pier protection for various port facilities. The SF500 series was initially developed for the USA’s East Coast where our installations are regularly exposed to the brutal hurricanes that plague the coast during the autumn season. That our SF500 series survives this depends on our unique coupling system that absorbs and distributes loads when the loads are increasing tremendously during severe storms.
Simply put, one can say that when a SF500 breakwater is under duress, the rubber cylinders in the connectors are what handles the stress, and not the wires, so the concrete around the connectors is subjected mainly to compressive forces, and not tension. This makes our breakwater unique and our SF500 series is the foremost floating breakwater made today.
We can now manufacture them at any angles whatsoever, and we can equip the pontoons with virtually any components because we basically use the same standardized technical solutions that are thoroughly tested.
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The SFBW400
SF400 Series is a very rigorously tested breakwater. It is used today in all the world’s oceans. SF400 Series has been under continual development for the past 30 years and has survived all of the recent storms and hurricanes that it has been exposed to. This is due to our very unique system which has been designed to absorb and distribute stress when the loads are increasing tremendously during severe storms. SF400 Series, like all of our breakwaters, is doubly reinforced with the market’s thickest concrete surfacing layer, which guarantees a strong pontoon with a very long lifetime. The amount of reinforced concrete in a breakwater is easy to compare with others, by simply checking the weight.
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The SFBW300
SF300 is a 9.8 ft (3 m) wide all-concrete Breakwater. In our experience, that width is the minimum for the successful use of the turbulence chamber, “Wings,” the pontoon. SF300 Series has been developed over 35 years and is now a very well-tested product that works in exposed locations.
