{"id":10289,"date":"2010-02-14T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/cleats\/"},"modified":"2010-02-14T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T07:00:00","slug":"cleats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/cleats\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"324\" alt=\"FPB-64-Feb-10-misc-208\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fpb-64-feb-10-misc-208.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dock line cleats are a controversial subject at Dashew Offshore. There are some who swear by them and others who swear at them. For getting the boat tied up,and adjusting position when there is wind or current to fight, winches combined with high modulus dock lines are the answer. That&#8217;s why we have three Lewmar #40 winches plus the big electric winch aft.<\/p>\n<p>For longer term docking, and once the boat is secure, a case can be made for cleats.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the FPB 64 we have a series of these ship style bollard cleats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>At the bow.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Amidships (two for spring lines).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>At the stern, reachable from the swim step.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bollard design provides better control than a yacht style horned cleat.<\/p>\n<p>Note the overhanging cap at the top. This is to reduce the chances of a line jumping off the bollard when tied to a high dock (in some cases a snatch block to secure the dock line may be required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dock line cleats are a controversial subject at Dashew Offshore. There are some who swear by them and others who <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/cleats\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}