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Another feature of the cleat retains one of the best features of SPD-R cleats, namely walkability.
Finally, fit a small trumpet type jam cleat to the same side of the tiller as the fairlead, as far forrard as will not interfere with your grip.
It seems this artist and industrial designer came up with the idea after he broke a toe on an amidships cleat.
In all cases, the line is passed under the arm of the cleat or around the belaying pin.
When the cleat tried to go through the hawsepipe, it jammed and ripped a section of the hull completely off the boat.
As you near the stern, a large iron cleat or fairlead lies diagonally across the wreck, followed by a pair of bollards slightly to the port side.
The only holds offered were the handrail on the roof and the small cleat amidships.
I have run across two opposing theories in regards to proper cleat positioning in relation to the pedal spindle.
He paces the bow, cramped as it is, like the caged ocelot or the little peccary leashed to a cleat.
Treads may be set into a dado or nailed to a cleat attached to the side of a stair stringer.
If I squinted my eyes tight enough, I could also see the cleat near the stern where I used to attach the painter from the punt.
It was simply fastened to a cleat on the gunwale, with no provision for reeling it back in.
The rope on this anchor ought to run through a bow cleat or preferably a bow roller so that it keeps the bow into the wind.
She tied it off securely to a cleat on the starboard corner of the transom.
The correct way to attach to a mooring is to put one line through the mooring and bring it back to the same cleat and side as it started on.
The only holds offered were the handrail on the coachroof and the small cleat amidships.
You should be able to survive the failure of any one cleat with the wind in any given direction.
The anchor cleat was also ripped from the boat, so I am very lucky I did not lose my anchor completely.
To compensate for the loss of grip with the neoprene decking, most snowshoes also have a metal cleat for grip under the ball of the foot.
If you are using toe clips, look for shoes that accept the old-style slotted cleat, which will help you pedal with 360 degrees of power.
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Grooves can be cut in both cleat and board and a tongue or spline inserted.
This plate is soldered to the shank of the screw-eye and the cleat is complete.
Now to get a cleat or something across that window so we can take the rope with us!
They went swinging from belaying pin to cleat above the seas that beat the half-submerged deck.
Move over, Corbett, I'm skinnier than you are, and I can reach that cleat easier than you can.
To let go altogether, instead of lowering with a turn on a cleat or bitt-head.
The posts and cleat are surfaced on four sides, while the other pieces are surfaced on only two sides.
The cleat is a t-shaped mass of metal employed for the fastening of ropes.
He hauled it to the stern of the mtb and attached the line to a cleat.
If your halliards are belayed to cleats, marl them to the cleat.
I belayed the rope to the second cleat and set a half-hitch on the turns.
Harvey saw half a dozen knives stuck in a cleat in the hatch combing.
Get a line out, and we'll fasten to this cleat at our stern.
See this cleat all around the inside, six inches from the top.
He locked both hands on the cleat and closed his eyes in concentration.
This and the cleat on the stern-piece form rests for the stern seat.
Somebody who had gone on the roof to clean out the gutters had left a cleat nailed to the side of the house about halfway between the window and the top of the back porch.
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