SportPort Docking Systems has been around for over 20 years, pioneering the way for drive on docking. From the very beginning SportPort has proven to be the most reliable and maintenance free drive on dock on the market.  From the days of the 350 lb. jet ski to the latest new skis that are weighing close to 1000lbs, we have you covered. Our new 500 series docking system accommodates anything from your Personal Watercraft to your 10,000 lb. offshore fishing boat.  Need a work float? Have a pontoon boat? Use our 5×10 deck section, and link as many together as you like.

People have tried many methods over the years to get their boat out of the nasty environment of marine growth, barnacles and such. They would pull them up, or drive them onto anything that floated to avoid getting that growth on the bottom.

In 1989, back when David Rueckert, the owner & President of SportPort Docking Systems, Inc. and his wife were dating, her Dad had one of the old Kawasaki TS skis. His only option when he wanted to use it was to hook it up to the hand crank davit that he had, swing it over the water, lower it down and then try to climb down on it. Every time he would go through that aggravation he would say to himself, “there’s got to be a better way”.

David was building docks and seawalls at the time. So he built a wooden wedge out of plywood and 2X10’s, covered the deck with the plastic grass and put Styrofoam under it to make it float. In a very short time he was making them for other people who liked the convenience of just driving up onto a float. He named it the “Float-A-Toy”. It worked great but only for a year or so and then they would fall apart. It wasn’t until those customers called a year later and wanted another one that David knew that there had to be a market for such a thing. He wanted to find a better way to make them so that they would last longer, so he researched and found out about a plastics convention in Chicago. After a lot of questions, he left that trade show with a contract from a molding company to make what is now known as the SportPort.

SportPort has made a lot of changes to the drive on docking systems since those early days, and they now float over 35,000 PWC’s. David says: “We try hard to listen to what the market likes and doesn’t like, and incorporate those needs into an ever improving Drive on Docking System.”