Patent ID: 7555993

Claim:
A whip-style boat mooring apparatus including at least a whip socket for a whip which assists in positioning a boat away from the dock, the apparatus being removably attachable to a first dock cleat previously affixed to a dock but lacking a whip-style mooring capability, the first dock cleat having a central body with two oppositely projecting arms around which a dock line can be wrapped, the mooring apparatus removably attachable directly to the central body of the first dock cleat while the first dock cleat remains affixed to the dock; the apparatus further comprising: a second cleat affixed to the apparatus above the central body of the first cleat thereby providing an alternate cleat above and proximate to the first cleat for boat mooring, the second cleat having a body and two projecting arms around which a dock line can be wrapped, such that the apparatus provides both whip-style and standard cleat mooring from a single dock point.