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- Aug 23, 1999
I mentioned that particular dock does float, but seems to float within some bounds. It’s also a very large dock and some parts are connected to other by float adjustable ramps.From the photos it looks like the dock is a floating one, not fixed, so it should line up with the boat pretty much the same no matter the height of the water. The weight of passengers in the boat could make the boat slightly higher or lower though. The dock could also get hung up on a post, but that would make the dock noticeably tilted.
The captains always load the wheelchair/ECV onto an empty boat and in our experience, at least, they always have other passengers get off the boat before unloading the wheelchair/ECV.
So there is no weight of passengers to make a difference.
The only exceptions have been when the captain has needed the passengers’s weight in order to adjust the level of the boat. In those cases, the captain explained what he wanted the passengers to do and why.