North Port, Sarasota County
Start your North Port shortlist with the kind of work you need: a dock, a lift or a wall holding the yard in place. This page puts permit activity beside project costs and hiring checks. Use it to prepare a clear scope before contractors visit your shoreline and give you written quotes.
North Port permits are not yet in this ranking. It uses Cape Coral and Lee County, the nearest records we track. Counts show activity; check the license and compare quotes.
| 1 | Honc Docks & Lifts | 284 | 130 | 59 | 69 | 26 | 302 | $37,500 | 65% |
| 2 | WB Williamson Bros | 281 | 94 | 75 | 93 | 19 | 294 | $31,600 | 68% |
| 3 | Williamson and Sons Marine Construction | 234 | 0 | 8 | 226 | 0 | 234 | $16,000 | 71% |
| 4 | Stokes Marine | 121 | 47 | 43 | 5 | 26 | 143 | $40,000 | 66% |
| 5 | Rusnell Marine Construction | 91 | 40 | 32 | 1 | 18 | 95 | $29,400 | 71% |
| 6 | Crocker Marine Services | 86 | 22 | 32 | 27 | 5 | 95 | $42,800 | 34% |
| 7 | Hickcox Brothers Marine | 60 | 30 | 24 | 0 | 6 | 75 | $28,000 | 52% |
| 8 | Hawley Construction | 58 | 28 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 64 | $24,200 | 70% |
| 9 | Honc Marine Contracting | 58 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 0 | 58 | $33,500 | 66% |
| 10 | Aquamarine Construction | 42 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 46 | $31,000 | 80% |
| 11 | Hooker Marine Construction | 39 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 39 | $30,200 | 77% |
| 12 | Mauney Marine Construction | 36 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 38 | $25,000 | 61% |
Source: City of Cape Coral and Lee County permit records, the nearest marine permit records we track. Sarasota County permits are not in this ranking yet. Ranked by dock, boat lift and seawall permits issued or filed Nov 2025 - Oct 2026; all marine permits also counts lift covers and other marine work. Median job = the median value declared on the contractor's dock, lift and seawall permits here. Finaled = share of all its permits that passed final inspection or closed. How we rank.
284 dock, lift and seawall permits in Cape Coral + Lee County
Where it works most: Cape Coral (227), Lee County (57), Cypress Lake (8), North Fort Myers (7)
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281 dock, lift and seawall permits in Cape Coral + Lee County
Where it works most: Cape Coral (213), Lee County (48), Cypress Lake (12), North Fort Myers (9)
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234 dock, lift and seawall permits in Cape Coral + Lee County
Where it works most: Cape Coral (219), Lee County (8), Cypress Lake (3), Iona (2)
A lift replacement and a complete dock rebuild need different descriptions before their quotes mean anything. For your North Port job, separate the structure you will keep from the parts coming out, then read the permit medians as background.
| Job | Median permit value | Middle half of jobs | Permits | Data from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dock + boat lift | $45,000 | $29,600 - $64,800 | 618 | Cape Coral + Lee County |
| Dock | $24,000 | $12,500 - $40,000 | 493 | Cape Coral + Lee County |
| Seawall | $20,000 | $14,000 - $33,000 | 545 | Cape Coral + Lee County |
| Boat lift | $16,600 | $8,360 - $25,200 | 176 | Cape Coral + Lee County |
| Lift cover or canopy | $2,490 | $2,280 - $6,280 | 475 | Cape Coral + Lee County |
Values are what contractors declared on public permits (job value at filing). They are local averages for information, not a quote: only a contractor who sees your shoreline can price your job.
Seawalls in Cape Coral and Lee County: a median of $240 per linear foot on 417 permits that state a length (middle half $184-$375); the typical wall was 80 feet.
The regional dock-and-lift median is $45,000 in declared permit value. That figure describes paperwork filed for other properties, rather than an invoice or a price for your North Port home. The cost table already separates job types. Use those categories to decide which description fits your project, then write down what that category leaves unresolved at your own dock.
Start a dock scope at the walking surface and work downward. State wood or composite decking, the area to be rebuilt and which pilings need inspection. For a lift, bring the boat details and ask the contractor to specify capacity and equipment. A proposal that replaces decking while keeping the support structure covers different work from one that removes the whole dock. Put that difference in writing before comparing totals.
A seawall discussion starts with the length involved, the panel material and the condition of the cap. Include removal of the existing structure and the route used to reach it. Ask each bidder to describe what happens to the dock or lift beside the wall during construction. Those details belong in the contractor's written price. Multiplying a regional permit value by your waterfront length cannot settle them.
City of North Port is the permit office for this page, and its marine work uses Residential Marine permits. Have the contractor identify the permit for your project, then keep that record with the scope, contract and final inspection information.
Permit office: City of North Port
Your contractor pulls the permit; you can look it up afterwards by address in the office's public permit search.
Before work begins, get the permit number from the contractor and confirm that it belongs to your address and project. Ask City of North Port how to retrieve the record by property address. Keep the answer with your project notes so you can return to the same record later. A nearby Port Charlotte job does not establish which office handles your North Port parcel.
Larger Florida construction jobs use a Notice of Commencement recorded with the county before work starts and posted at the site. Ask the contractor to explain how that document fits your project and keep a copy with the permit. An owner-builder permit carries the contractor's responsibilities for the homeowner. For work you hire a contractor to perform, have that contractor pull the permit.
Put the final inspection into your payment discussion at the beginning. You need a way to check that the permit shows the final before the last payment, rather than relying on the dock looking finished. Save the permit number somewhere you can find it after the equipment leaves. If the visible work and the record tell different stories, ask the contractor to explain what remains to close the job.
Read across the contractor table before reading down it. A company with many seawall permits brings a different record to your search than one with mostly docks and lifts. Match that record to your scope, then make the license check yourself.
Williamson and Sons Marine Construction has 226 seawall permits among 234 tracked permits. That concentration is useful when your immediate problem is a leaning wall, but the count alone does not assess the work. For a dock and lift project, look at the dock-and-lift column instead. The table ranks permit activity, so use it to choose the questions you will bring to a site visit.
The finaled share adds another question to that visit. In the tracked records, finaled means a permit passed final inspection in Cape Coral or closed with a certificate of completion in Lee County. It is a status measure, not a homeowner review. Ask about the permit process for the job you are discussing, and do not treat the share as a prediction of how your own project will finish.
Prepare one written scope for the three quotes: materials, removal, lift equipment, access and permit responsibility. Ask bidders to mark any different assumptions so you can compare the same work. Rankings are never paid. When you have a shortlist, pick up to 3 on the quote form and they will contact you to look at the job. The contractor you hire handles the contract, price, permit and construction.
Bring the discussion back to your actual North Port waterfront. Sarasota County is the county here, but City of North Port is the named permit office. Your shoreline conditions and access matter more to a working scope than a broad town label.
Describe the water at your property in the quote request. A canal edge, a more exposed shoreline and a sheltered dock present different questions, so tell the contractor what is actually there. Note boat wakes you see and where the structure stays wet. Saltwater, sun and barnacles wear marine parts, but do not assume that every North Port property has the same exposure or boat access.
Walk the yard side as well as the water side before the appointment. Photograph cracks in the cap, a wall that appears to lean and places where fill has disappeared. For an older dock, show the pilings beneath the boards instead of sending only a view of the deck. These observations help you describe the problem; the contractor's shoreline inspection establishes the work to include in a proposal.
Port Charlotte and Englewood are nearby comparison pages if you are gathering questions for more than one property. They are useful places to continue reading, while the address on this project remains the starting point for permit questions. If storms prompted the rebuild, distinguish the damaged parts from improvements you also want. That keeps a North Port repair request from quietly turning into an undefined dock, lift and wall replacement.
We count the marine permits each contractor pulled, from the city and county permit offices' public records.
The contractor named on the permit gets the credit. You can look up any permit by address yourself.
Contractors can't buy a higher rank. Network partners get a call button; the order stays the data's.
Honc Docks & Lifts has 302 permits in the ranking area, the largest count shown. That measures activity in the records described above. It does not establish the quality of a North Port job. Use the job mix to build your shortlist, check the license and compare written quotes.
No. The $45,000 figure is the median value declared on regional dock-and-lift permits when filed. It is not an invoice. Your existing pilings, decking choice, lift equipment and removal work need a site visit before a contractor can give you a price for your property.
Start with City of North Port and the contractor doing the work. The city issues Residential Marine permits. Ask the contractor for the permit number before construction, and ask the city how to find the record using your property address. Return to that record to check the final.
Describe the cracks, leaning or lost fill you can see, then ask for an inspection of the wall. A cap repair and replacement of the panels are different scopes. Have the contractor state which parts stay, which parts come out and how adjacent dock structures are addressed.
Search myfloridalicense.com for the contractor and read the license record before you hire. Then compare the written scope with the other quotes you collected. Agree on permit responsibility, obtain the permit number and tie the final payment to checking that the permit shows its final.
Pick up to 3 contractors through the quote form and they will contact you to look at the job. Describe the structure and what needs to change. Bring photos, boat details and access notes to the discussion so their written proposals address the same project.
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