[Kayla]

Originally Posted by DickR

My dock also is 6x30, aluminum frame crankup. The header bar was bolted to a huge pile of boulders at the shore end and the frame hung from it before ice-out a couple of years ago. The crew (Center Harbor Dock & Pier) delivered it by truck and trailer over the ice. They couldn't install the 4x6 legs because of the ice, so the frame was cranked up just a bit to await ice-out. In that position, I crawled out over the frame to the end, expecting some teetering. Boy, that frame barely moved at all. It's quite torsionally rigid.



I do have a pair of 8-ft whips for the boat, more for protection of the boat. I had the welder install a pair of mounting brackets for the whip bases, which bolt through the deck directly to the brackets. On summer weekends, when the boat wakes are unending, the boat pitches up and down vigorously, pulling on the whips, but the dock itself doesn't budge.

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