Boathouses

Boathouses: Your Boat’s Perfect Shelter

Why Choose a Boathouse?

Sheltering your boat from the elements is an essential step in preserving its value and reducing maintenance efforts. At Tonka Built, our boathouses offer an affordable and efficient solution to keep your boat safe from sun rays, rain, and debris. By using a boathouse, you can avoid the hassle of snapping on a boat cover and save valuable time on cleaning, allowing you to focus on what you love most—boating!

Durable and Customizable Construction

Our boathouses are built to last, featuring aluminum and galvanized steel frames that cater to various heights, widths, and lengths. Here’s a closer look at what makes our boathouses exceptional:

• Galvanized Steel Frames: We use hot-dipped schedule 40 galvanized pipes for all steel-frame boathouses, ensuring robustness and longevity.
• Heavy-Duty Aluminum Frames: Our aluminum construction has proven its strength and durability over the years, making it a reliable choice for your boathouse needs.
• Supportive Framework: The boathouses are tied together with wood 2×2’s, steel, or aluminum slats, providing a sturdy structure to support the vinyl covering.

Superior Vinyl Covering

The key to an effective boathouse lies in its covering. We use an industry-standard 13 oz UV-coated vinyl that offers superior protection and durability:

• Heat-Welded Seams: The vinyl is heat-welded to create watertight seams, ensuring your boat stays dry and protected from water intrusion.
• Secure Fastening: ¾” grommets are inserted along all four edges of the vinyl, allowing you to tie it securely to the boathouse framework.
• Customization Options: Choose from a variety of colors and patterns. Whether you prefer a solid color, stripes, or a custom design, we can manufacture the vinyl to meet your aesthetic preferences.

Building a boathouse by yourself is something that not everybody will want to do. While it can be gratifying when all is said and done, there are certain safety risks involved in working high up on ladders or lifting heavy objects.
If you’re someone who can’t build your own boathouse, then we are here to help you.

We at Tonka Built offer boathouse sales with customized designs. We are the only company in the market that is able to build boathouses of absolutely any design and size, adapting them to your requirements with high precision.
We employ qualified staff members who will make sure that you get what you need. Our team of specialists uses the most advanced technology available out there to create stunning boathouses that are technologically sound.

The cost of a boathouse varies on the size, materials used, and additional features included. Generally, though, a boathouse kit will cost much less to purchase than building one from scratch. A boathouse kit typically consists of the mainframe construction, decking system, roofing material, wiring for exterior lighting if needed, aluminum railings or other types of the railing system, as well as stairway/ladder components. In this case, you generally have the ability to pick the style you want, and then it will be shipped directly to your home, where you can install it yourself or hire an experienced contractor to do it for you.

An average-sized boathouse of Tonka Built can range anywhere from $4,000 for one with minimum upgrades all the way up to about $25,000 depending on the location, size, and upgrades needed. If you are looking for a Minnesota boathouse for sale, then Tonka Built can be your trusted source where you can find all types of boathouses.