WAVEEATER,LLC
CLARKESVILLE, GA

Wave Eater didn't just start with our wave attenuation device. Summit has been manufacturing and distributing marine products since 1954. Summit originally began as the Benson Anchor Company, a manufacture of unique anchor windlasses and accessories for the boating industry. With the acquisition of Marine Docks in 1986 the group broadened the product line to include aluminum floating docks and dock hardware under the Dock Pete’s banner. Wave Eater evolved from an idea presented to our former company Benson Marine Products. Benson was founded in 1954 and was the first company to design a lightweight slip-ring anchor. The Benson "Snag Proof Anchor" was recognized as the superior cast slip-ring anchor and was sold around the world. A project in Canandaigua, New York required a floating breakwater. Odenbach designed and patented a rotationally molded product based on a swimming pool delineator developed by the famous American Gold Medalist in the 1936 Berlin games named Adolf Kiefer. With Kiefer's permission a regulatory buoy design was developed that would simulate the dissipation of waves created and then dissipated by Olympic swimmers. Wave Eater was developed as a rotationally molded drum with baffles. Through the center a high density polyethylene pipe was molded in as well to be the bearing core. The product as installed has the capacity to submerge 2/3rds by filling with water. The units as designed churn as the waves strike them much as a washing machine agitator moves back and forth. Dissipation rates vary according to how the wave attenuation system is designed. Since 1995 numerous wave attenuation systems have been installed around the United States and in Asia. The simple construction of molded plastic using water as a ballast makes it a very economical and environmentally safe product. Some materials used in the manufacturing of Wave Eater's breakwater systems come from recycled materials. Wave Eater didn't just start with our wave attenuation device. Summit has been manufacturing and distributing marine products since 1954. Summit originally began as the Benson Anchor Company, a manufacture of unique anchor windlasses and accessories for the boating industry. With the acquisition of Marine Docks in 1986 the group broadened the product line to include aluminum floating docks and dock hardware under the Dock Pete’s banner. Wave Eater evolved from an idea presented to our former company Benson Marine Products. Benson was founded in 1954 and was the first company to design a lightweight slip-ring anchor. The Benson "Snag Proof Anchor" was recognized as the superior cast slip-ring anchor and was sold around the world. A project in Canandaigua, New York required a floating breakwater. Odenbach designed and patented a rotationally molded product based on a swimming pool delineator developed by the famous American Gold Medalist in the 1936 Berlin games named Adolf Kiefer. With Kiefer's permission a regulatory buoy design was developed that would simulate the dissipation of waves created and then dissipated by Olympic swimmers. Wave Eater was developed as a rotationally molded drum with baffles. Through the center a high density polyethylene pipe was molded in as well to be the bearing core. The product as installed has the capacity to submerge 2/3rds by filling with water. The units as designed churn as the waves strike them much as a washing machine agitator moves back and forth. Dissipation rates vary according to how the wave attenuation system is designed. Since 1995 numerous wave attenuation systems have been installed around the United States and in Asia. The simple construction of molded plastic using water as a ballast makes it a very economical and environmentally safe product. Some materials used in the manufacturing of Wave Eater's breakwater systems come from recycled materials.