Bowline cleat location

blackfish · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:52 pm Post subject: Bowline cleat location

Hello all
On the advice of some of the great cbrats I met at the pender harbour gathering. I've purchased a couple of Lewmar Composite Cleats
For securing the bowline in the cockpit.
where exactly to put them I'm not sure Crook

Any advice on a final location would be appreciated.
Or better yet a picture

Thanks Dave

lloyds · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:23 pm Post subject:

I put mine behind the bulkhead about 4". Works for me.

Sea Wolf · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: Bowline cleat location

Casey · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2014 11:26 pm Post subject:

We like to keep 'fixed lines (bow and stern) on both port and starboard. To keep things orderly we use a Harken "cam cleat" for line handling. Having the lines already in place makes line handling very easy when you dock.

http://www.westmarine.com/buy/harken--cam-matic-aluminum-harken-150-cam-cleat--114652/zoomImages

Best,
Casey&Mary

colobear · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:25 am Post subject:

We have the cam cleats as well and find them extremely handy and easy to use. Speaking frankly, and with the best of intentions, just about every time we see someone hurriedly untying their docklines when approaching the dock it seems a lot of effort and often, needless drama. Our camcleats are on the sides of the cabin just above cleat shown by Seawolf Joe. We did install a full size cleat on each side of the "walkaround about 6inches forward of Joe's cleat. We did that in order to have a midships cleat for springing. It too has been very handy

hambone · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:46 am Post subject:

Chester · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 2:17 pm Post subject:

I mounted cleats vertically on the forward, inside edge of the cockpit coaming. Look at Sea wolf's photo and notice where the dock line falls. Right there.
I used dock lines which can't reach the props should one of them come loose. 15' I think.

rjmcnabb · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:03 pm Post subject:

Hi Blackfish,
I decided against cleats for this purpose; to be big enough I thought them intrusive. I keep both sides rigged the same way, and use whichever side is necessary (usually starboard, and I like to back in.) Both bow and stern lines are the same length (about 2/3 of boat,) and I tie their ends together with a double sheet-bend. You can place the knot as you like to control what falls into the cockpit, but it stays neatly against the coaming, especially if you lay it inside the midship cleat. It almost never gets wet, is too short to reach the prop, and when you step onto a dock you take control of both bow and stern. I leave the midship breast-line tucked inside the window, and that is usually what I tie off first. The double sheet-bend is easy to tie, easier to release, and extremely secure, even flogging in the water.
(An extra bonus: no drilled holes!)
Rod