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Originally Posted by Dave R
It's amazing how many boaters don't seem to know how to tie a cleat hitch. I walked all the common area docks in my neighborhood and saw that zero boats out of about twenty had a correct cleat hitch.
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• I've read different versions.
I take one complete
turn—so the line touches all around—and then make the equivalent of a clove hitch. (Meaning, a "flip" around
each end of the cleat, making the two "flips" flat and even).
• When you run an
eye splice through the center of the cleat, it tends to take a "set": while it seems secure, it
can back out!
Used in this way, the "eye" in the splice should be
just large enough to require some firm manipulation over the cleat.
• I stumbled into a photograph of the brand-new, but ill-fated, US submarine,
USS Corvina, showing the use of a "short splice" in what appears to be
manila line.
You can bet that this sailor made a "correct" cleat hitch!
