36 PROFESSIONAL BOATBUILDERDETAILS: From the Shows- is is a handsome and well-thought-out toerail and
cleat arrangement. Although the cleats are a bit small, there
are two, and they are well protected by the toerail, so snag-
ging sails or running lines is unlikely. e stainless steel
chock is generously sized, with ample room for cha ng gear
and nicely so ened edges that help prevent abrasion.
Fender hangers come in all shapes and sizes, and these well-
padded specimens are attractive and functional. My only
reservation is that they not be le too long in the same loca-
tion, because, over time, soaking-wet fender hangers can
cause blushed varnish and bubbled paint underneath. - is beautiful stainless steel cleat casting has inte-
grated, carefully radiused chock arms. Many hours of
grinding and polishing were required to produce this shine,
but what’s to stop the spliced eye in the black dockline from
jumping o the cleat’s horns if the boat thrashes around at
the dock? - Every edge of this “no-snag” cleat is generously radi-
used. Swing-away gates at the forward and a ends of the
cleat open to accommodate a line or spliced loop around
the cleat’s horns. Although designed to prevent sails, sheets,
and spinnaker guys from snagging, this cleat could be also
surface-mounted amidships or on the bow of a walk-
around sport shing boat, where snagged shing lines can
ruin your day. - Cleats are also mounted below the decks or covering
boards, with attached lines emerging through hawsehole
castings, where sharp corners trigger rapid chafe in rough
conditions. Big radiuses, it turns out, can be as troublesome
as sharp edges. is hawsepipe casting has gently radiused
edges that will be easy on the line. Corey Butlin at RW
Ropes in New Bedford, Massachusetts, advised, “A radius
about half the line’s outside diameter will be kind to them.
Too sharp a radius, or too big a radius, will cause too
much chafe. Bigger is better, but only to a point.” Speaking
of chafe, how about installing one or more chafe bars where
the lines bear on the turn of the deck above the hull-to-deck
joint? A dockline sawing away on the
gelcoat will eventually wear o the sur-
face’s gloss. - is layout le me a bit ba ed.
Why not install two cleats, and why
position the chocks to torture the dock-
line this much? I say “dockline” instead
of “lines” because this boat is apparently
designed to dock only starboard-side to.
Is the recessed navigation light a cool
design feature or just an attempt to stop
the dockline from tearing it o as the
boat moves up and down on its dock-
lines with the tide or boat wake?
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