Hi Rick,
Good points. Two reasons for a mid ship cleat.
1. Not all docks (and Piers) have mid cleats.
2. The chocks at the bow and stern of my C&C are not big enough for 2-5/8"
dock lines, so chaffing is an issue.
Gary
S/V Kaylarah
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Rick Brass via CnC-List <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I’ve actually been following this discussion, though I don’t foresee the
> need for a mid-ship cleat on Imzadi.
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> Imzadi is one of the mid-70s C&Cs that came with a winch farm around the
> mast. I’ve led lines aft and eliminated the winches, but kept the cleats on
> the cabin top. The spring lines in my home slip are attached high on
> pilings so they can be routed over the lifelines and to the cabin top
> mid-ship cleats. Since I leave a set of lines permanently attached at the
> home slip, and they are preset for length with the eye toward the boat,
> this makes entering the slip and tying up pretty easy.
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> On the bigger boats I’ve worked on (up to about 85 feet or so) and
> observed, the normal procedure is to run the springs from the bow and stern
> and attach them to the dock in the middle. That is the practice I almost
> always use when on a dock other than my home slip. And that is the way my
> 25 is secured in her slip.
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> On the 72 foot schooner I used to captain, we had prerigged bow and bow
> spring through the forward hawse hole, and prerigged stern and aft spring
> lines through the aft hole. We did have a short-ish (25 ft. or so) breast
> line through a mid-ship hawse, but that line was always the first line to
> the dock so I could use the engine fore and aft to snug the boat up to the
> dock before setting dock lines, and it was removed and coiled after the
> other lines were secure.
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> I guess I’m curious why so many other C&Cers have added mid-ship cleats?
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> Rick Brass
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> Imzadi C&C 38 mk2 #47
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> la Belle Aurore C&C 25 mk1 #225
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> Washington, NC
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