![]() Whilst consolling the clearly upset owner of this otherwise immaculate boat, he noted that I did not have any superfluous metalwork on my boat, and observed that as an alternative to cleats, the bare patches in the paintwork on my hand rails, caused by the rubbing ropes, could always be elimiminated by installing a brass wear plate on the top edge of the rail. The 4Dek handed fairleads are cast in stainless steel (316 grade), with a high polish finish. Description Specifications Ask a Question Description. These handed fairleads are suitable for up to 16mm outside diameter rope and are sold in packs of 2 fairleads. The boat keeled over at about 15 degrees and then the rope pulled the cleat straight off the handrail, shearing both the holding screws, the cleat was dragged along the handrail removing all the paint in it's path and then flew up into the air, narrowly missing ther owners forehead before it hit the ground and fell ino the canal. The 4Dek handed fairleads are cast in stainless steel (316 grade), with a high polish finish. The force of the water leaving the lock, and the following undertow was so strong that it pulled his boat first in one direction, and then violently in the opposite direction. Whilst waiting to lock through at Marston Doles on the Southern Oxford, the boat in front of me had his centre line running through a cleat (screwed to the top of the handrail) and tied up to a bollard. I have just been away on the boat for a week, and whilst away, witnessed an incident that confimed my refusal to ever fit Fairleads (or Cleats) to my boat.
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