Ideally I'm thinking a couple of metal plates on the backside of the mounts under the decking would do the trick, but maybe that's overkill? His boat is probably around 2500 lbs and these 14' whips are rated for 10,000 lbs. The wood planks are pressure-treated and in very good condition (new last year), but may end up putting some additional lumber/support below the whip mounts. Already moved the battery box over to the other leg, and the lift is also mounted on wheels this year to make moving it from the beach to the lake easier. Plus, his boat is an I/O and can be in much shallower water. My lift is going to be placed on the left side of the dock this year (see attached thumbnail with my crude sketch) and then I'm planning on installing the whips on the second to last section of floating dock on the right side.this way, I can pull my boat off the lift and pull in and tie up real quick on the right side of dock if needed without having to worry about the other boat. I'm not anticipating having to move out anywhere near as far as last year with the amount of precipitation we already got.not to mention all the snowpack in the mountains! Your old boat is pretty much right on-par with what he has. This year I'm combining forces with the neighbor.he has 80' of rolling docks (which basically went out to about 1' of water at the end of the season) and we'll use it to connect from shore to my floating docks. I have four 4' auger anchors that I connect to, along with a 3000 lb concrete anchor at the end. Right on, thanks for the info! And yes, I picked up 110' of 6' wide floating dock last year - we had the 2nd lowest lake levels on record so we had to push the dock out a good amount just to keep it deep enough for the lift to operate, which meant wading out in knee-high water about 100' to just get to my floating dock. Being in VT you know the storms we get! my first boat, probably similar to what you'll have right? And my SV Edited Maby Cdifranco On stormy stormy days I might throw a line to the tower for the just in case but that is rare. You can tell too as the season progressed ropes were eliminated and now its bare minimum. My bayliner was way up front, the SV more to the middle of the boat. one other tip, in one of the photos you can see where the mooring base where, I had to move it significantly when I got my SV, so if your trying to kill the two birds with one stone maybe split the difference and mount it in the middle of the two.

One thing I did have to cut which wasnt a big deal was cut a hole in the front of the cover and sewed up nice to make a hole for the whips to go through and attach to the cleat. Ill find some pics of how I have mine hooked up. Honestly I spent a summer playing around with it and its no longer rocket science, first summer i was nervous this summer its tie it up and let the hurricane roll through. I use 5 lines total: The 2 ropes attached to the whips, two bungee lines to keep the boat pulled towards the dock to counter act the whips pulling it out and then one rope just keeping the stern cleat from letting the waves push the boat forward. The whips will only hold the boat away from the dock but does limited from forward and backwards movement. Also what I do since I am on a busy wavy part of the lake is I stagger the cleats. My dock is old and rotted out so I drilled through the dock and into a piece of pressure treated wood so it the whip comes off its taking 3-4 deck boards with it. My recommendations are make sure the cast base pieces that hold the fiberglass whip are secured well. Cant remember if it was wood or not though. I remember a thread where you got a huge dock.

They're going to be used for my neighbor's 20' Chaparral open bow most of the time, but I'm sure I'll tie up to them a few times too. I picked up a set of the 14' whips from Overton's.curious (maybe can answer) if you have any tips and tricks for a first-time owner of whips.

Dockmate deluxe mooring whips