How to Tie a Boat to a Dock

We got a ton of comments on this video and we learned from them - check them out as there is good information and different opinions in there.

Essentials
Knots
Beer

Doesn't know how to tie a correct cleat hitch. And no, more wraps do not help

Worst cleat hitch I have seen. Thousands of examples easily available on how to do it right!

Simple. Straight to the point. Thank you.

Without a full wrap around the cleat first is no bueno. The rat's nest to untangle that when leaving is crazy. Full wrap, figure eight then lock it. Done. Won't jam up.

Yikes ! That cleat hitch is wrong

Just not sure why you would put together a "how to" guide on tying a cleat when you seem to have it wrong in every shot.

Wow, this is an instructional video and the guy is teaching how to tie off to a cleat WRONG! What a mess! Try to untie his knot when there is a strong load on the line! It won't come loose!

Wow. Bad advice in this video. This should be taken down
by Len's Cove.

GREAT! Easy to listen to... Thank you!

This guy has no idea how to properly tie off a cleat, totally incorrect

Thanks for the great tips 🎉🎉🎉

Why tie knots at all? I just have a caribiner on the end of every line. I occasionally check my knot holding the caribiner.

Best breakdown I’ve seen het

thank you for to the tutorial. these info should be enough to properly tied my inflatable boat.

Thats not a great cleat hitch TBH.

Not the proper way to tie off to a cleat. You risk losing your fingers and you only need the half hitch on the final turn which locks it into place. All of the rest is just you trying to lose fingers and ultimately chafe the line unnecessarily because of the way you laid it on with all of those hitches. Your line will last half as long doing it that way.

Thank you!! From a new boater!!!

Very good

WRONG WRONG WRONG, you do one around the base, 2 figure 8's and ONE half hitch

His mistake in this video is obvious and well-documented by knowledgeable commentators. Everyone is entitled to a few mistakes. His videos in general are quick, to-the-point, correct and educational without trying to be entertaining. I can only imagine the depths of his embarrassment.

Never seen that as a proper way to tie off to a cleat. I’ve been boating for 50 years in the Northeast. Use a cleat hitch. And for newer boaters, please, pull your fenders in when underway- don’t be a “fender offender”! Times are changing I guess!

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!

First three seconds is me when my friends decide to buy a new boat that I know they have no intention of dropping in the water

Does a spring line allow for low and high tides?

Nice video and thanks. Did I miss something since I did not see any reference to the stern tie up...(?) Thanks!

Adding hitches to a “herreshoff” type cleat is unnecessary and potentially dangerous, especially if a boat must be repositioned or adjusted. A single hitch after a full turn and crossover is enough and doesn’t endanger anyone’s fingers. The additional loop prior to two half-hitches on a ring cleat is interesting but not really necessary, either.

Lol I need to do this for a school assignment but I’ve just been rewatching this vid the whole time

Why not just run thru ring back to cavel on boat and all those locking hitches is WAY over kill

Thank you! I got it !

Bullshite! That’s not how to tie to a cleat.

Please see You Tube video
A perfect cleat hitch by the Maryland school of sailing and seamanship.
This is the best instruction on the proper way to attach to a cleat.

Please see You Tube video
A perfect cleat hitch by the Maryland school of sailing and seamanship.
This is the best instruction on the proper way to attach to a cleat.

Ehm... NO

Read Chapmans’s and learn how to tie a proper cleat knot before making a video about tying a cleat knot! There’s always another way to do something, but in this case I have to ask why? I was a dock master years ago and it amazed me how few skippers and crew knew how. I’ve seen my share of inexperienced skippers make make mistakes and panic moves due to wind and current while someone is attempting to make fast to a cleat, ripping the line out of the persons hand or parting the line that’s attached to a cleat. Once I even saw a skipper rip a piling right out of the water! My point is, never teach your crew to use their hand to make a loop in the line so close to the cleat! A line that’s cleated too soon or a mistake from the skipper could cause serious injury or amputation. Just learn to tie a proper cleat knot and you will know more than 90%of boaters.

One of the better videos that shows how to tie properly + from a good angle.

This was very helpful thanks

Thank you, this is a great video.

Improper cleat hitch, super sloppy 👎👎

He uses the dock cleat wrong. Watch another video. Or read a book

The "braid" you did as a "pretty knot" i use to store my lines

This is one of those videos that (as a greenhorn) I will save and rewatch it until the moment I’m no longer a beginner.
So well made! simple, objective and devoid of ego.

How would I tie up if I only have cleats on the stern of the boat?

I cannot comprehend how nowadays textbook use cock to represent a male chicken. My teacher and the books that I used in school introduced the animal as chicken.

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That’s not how to tie on a cleat as we learned it and practice it, but I guess boating has something religeous to it. Cheers

Good video. Just what o needed to see.😀