4 inch cleat

Strong and. good looking cleat. Will work perfectly securing our small sailboat to the floating dock. Includes stainless hardware which is great. Choice of a screw or bolt attachment to the dock.

excellent quality , heavy and beautifully polished

Perfect for a lake dock. I use for my pontoon boat and they work great. Appreciate that they come with the mounting hardware...most cleats do not.

I have a Shappell JET SLED, made of tough plastic. It floats, but is not a boat. Ice fishermen use them to ferry gear across frozen lakes; I use mine to carry stuff into and out of the woods on snow, ice and even wet grass. But if the load is at all top-heavy, the sled can tip and spill the contents. I wanted a way to lash the sled load securely and recover rapidly. These cleats look like they will do the job. I order four cleats and, like other commentators, found the cleats better than usual quality but found the screws and bolts to be flimsy, possibly of inferior quality metal. So I set out to replace them. The supplied bolts are 4mm in diameter, so ideally I would replace them with 5mm bolts. Unfortunately the holes in the cleats are not big enough to admit that size. I checked with US size bolts and found that my next choice, size 10-24 with a diameter of 4.8mm was a hair too big for the hole, whichI is suspect is about 4.7mm. Unprepared to drill the holes in the cleats a little larger, I finally settled on 8-32 bolts, which are only 5% bigger in diameter at 4.2mm, but the bolts seem to be better quality and stronger. Size 8-32 bolts are widely available in hardware stores, but may be expensive if you have to buy a pack of 60 as I did. From Bolt Depot you can buy any amount at reasonable prices in lengths up to 3.5 inches. You can never have too many bolts. To provide adequate support for the cleats I decided to put four-inch pieces of metal bar stock on the underside of the plastic rails. Ideally one would use stainless steel, but it’s much harder to cut and drill than the aluminum stock I had at hand. Although all the cleats seemed to have the same hole separation, I numbered each cleat and its support piece, just in case. After centering the cleat on the piece of stock, I marked the hole location by passing a 5/32” (4mm) drill bit through the cleat and touching the spinning bit to the stock. After removing the cleat I finished drilling the hole. Then I used the supplied 4mm bolt to position the cleat over the hole and repeated the process for the other hole. After drilling all the holes, I then used a 11/64” (4.4mm) drill bit to enlarge the hole enough for the 8-32 bolts. By placing the metal stock on the underside of the sled it was easy to drill through the plastic with the 11/64” bit and attach the cleats. Because I expect the cleats to take a beating, I used a lock washer and a drop of blue thread locker on the threads. There may be other, cheaper ways of solving my problem, but I like the sleek look of the polished boat cleats. Now if I can only learn how to tie that boat cleat knot on You Tube!

These are beautiful and heavy. I bought a set to use as towel hooks in our outdoor shower and am planning to order another to use inside.

My boat had bumper hangers that didn't hold the bumpers all that great. I upgraded all 6 on my boat with these and couldn't be happier. They look very nice and come with bolts and screws for both type of mounting and everything is stainless. The only negative I could say is the nuts are tiny, so I purchased fender washers and lock washers to have a nice secure mount.

Installed these on our dock to secure a 16” boat. Finish on the stainless steel is flawless and looks like bright nickel. Purchased two to secure the boat, then we added two more to the other side of the dock because they are handy to have and look so good. Be sure to buy cleats that are large enough for the rope that you may use. Buying cleats that are too small (to save a few dollars) makes tying up a rocking boat much more difficult because it is like “threading a needle”. Great product, just be sure to buy the proper size. Highly Recommended.

These came to with 5 screws and 3 bolts. Needed all 4 bolts to install. E-mailed Customer Service, received a reply by the next day. It seems that maybe there more other packages with the same problem so to get me my needed bolt they send an entire new order. The cleats are not a full 4 inches but very well made, heavy duty. Can't vouch for durability, haven't used them but from appearance they should last a long time. They are on an aluminum boat.

Exactement ce que je voulais.