No, we have allowed modifications for elderly boaters before but typically it is for maintenance reasons. Plus frankly, most of the older boaters are experienced and tend seek reconfigurations allowing better more forgiving approach angles. It's their kids that ask for the sturdier docks. That said, when it gets to the point that your only justification for needing a piling or crib dock is that someone keeps running into it with the boat, perhaps it is time to sit down and discuss whether or not this person ought to be docking the boat any more. I don't say this flippantly as this is a conversation that my family has had to have; it is not an easy thing to do.
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