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Old 08-25-2015, 12:49 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by Hawgwash View Post
If your pulpit overhangs the walkway, your slip could be too short. It will most likely hang too far into the fairway if stern in and in either case, someone will hit it one day.
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Actually not as much. Often boats that actually have plenty of remaining space in the slip still pull the boat too far forward causing the pulpit to overhang the walkway.

Now pulpits protruding into the fairway is another problem. When finger piers are short, then there really isn't anything determining when the slip ends and the fairway starts. There are pulpits occasionally hit.

In your area the piers do provide some protection from boats in the fairway. I was use to that on the lake. The marinas I grew up around on a lake have far more in common with those on the west coast than they do with those around here.
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