[davidpm]

A neighbor I sail with on occasion has a slip at a local marina. The slip is on a floating dock with finger piers. They space the piers is two boats apart. So if both boats are head in, one would board on the port and one on the starboard side. This particular slip has two pilings right in the center to separate the two boats.
I measured from the piling to the finger pier and there is 11’ 6” clearance. The boat my neighbor is thinking of getting has a 10’ 10” beam (Catalina 30).
That’s only 8” which seems too tight to me. It did occur to me that the pilings are spaced about 1/3 from each end so the widest part of the boat is clear so I think it would technically fit.
So my question is just how tight of a dock is possible, reasonable, practical?