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How to Tie a Cleat Hitch

By Tom Lochhaas, About.com

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Do Figure-Eight Turns

Cleat hitch step 2

Courtesy FloridaSailingResource.com

Bring the line across and back under the first horn again in a figure-eight. Then make another figure-eight loop around the second horn.

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