T&T: Replacing chocks with cleats

[Jim Boyd]

Rich
You would be surprised at how many others echoed your suggestion offline
regarding "there are never too many cleats"

Good advice...and will be one of my (many) top priorities.

Six anchors???  Wow!!!  Now I need to go out and buy 4 more

Jim Boyd
Lark

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Subject: Re: T&T: Replacing chocks with cleats

Why not add the two cleats and leave the existing setup as is so you have
extra cleats when needed?

Ed K

Agree.
The single most ridiculous design flaw I have found on my Grand Banks was
the large centerline cleat at the bow where it was placed under the aft end
of the anchor pulpit and forward of the anchor windlass such that one has to
make love to the windlass to get a line unto the cleat.  I left it in place
when I added cleats to the deck on either side of the windlass because it
can still occasionally be useful when I have filled the other two cleats as
well as the bitts atop the windlass - not hard to do with doubled lines port
and starboard or in a hurricane mooring.  Once I even ran out of securing
points on the bow and ended up running lines down the deck to the midships
cleats - that was the time I put six anchors off the bow during the worst
hurricane to hit Panama City in the 18 years I have been here.
There is no such thing as too many cleats.

Rich Gano
CALYPSO (GB-42 #295)
Southport, FL
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