Bowline cleat location

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blackfish

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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
 
blackfish":tt4k1p7g said:
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
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Dave- Your 2004 gunnel is probably a little different than my 1987, but you can see where I put mine to be up out of the way and stay out of the drainage pattern in the photo below.

More importantly, just alongside the end of the cabin is 1) easy to reach and not in the way of getting into and out of the boat, and, 2) as well as not being in the way during fishing.

Some considerations to think about. Good Luck!

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Joe. :teeth :thup
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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