Haven't done the pad yet but I have all my material and found a guy couple days ago with a brake to bend my sheet into a channel and well I was talking to someone last night I think his boat is 15 ft in length and he said his pad is about 12 ft in length under the boat.
Do you think i'm gonna have a problem with this pad being just 5ft in length or should it be longer? I hope not because I have everything setup and ready to do it but am having some second thoughts here on the length of the pad going forward. My pad is currently 5 ft in length.

Just like a little more advice would this length be ok?

Thanks
Chris