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Boating 101: Perfecting the Art of Tying Cleat Knots Quickly

  • 2 min to read

Every boater should know how to tie off their craft in a number of situations: alongside a dock, in a wet slip or beached. But a quick glance along any public dock – say outside one of Lake Martin’s restaurants – shows that a lot of boaters struggle with the basic task of tying their boat to a docking cleat.

Before we go much further, we need a quick vocabulary lesson:

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