I’ve actually been following this discussion, though I don’t foresee the need for a mid-ship cleat on Imzadi.
Imzadi is one of the mid-70s C&Cs that came with a winch farm around the mast. I’ve led lines aft and eliminated the winches, but kept the cleats on the cabin top. The spring lines in my home slip are attached high on pilings so they can be routed over the lifelines and to the cabin top mid-ship cleats. Since I leave a set of lines permanently attached at the home slip, and they are preset for length with the eye toward the boat, this makes entering the slip and tying up pretty easy. On the bigger boats I’ve worked on (up to about 85 feet or so) and observed, the normal procedure is to run the springs from the bow and stern and attach them to the dock in the middle. That is the practice I almost always use when on a dock other than my home slip. And that is the way my 25 is secured in her slip. On the 72 foot schooner I used to captain, we had prerigged bow and bow spring through the forward hawse hole, and prerigged stern and aft spring lines through the aft hole. We did have a short-ish (25 ft. or so) breast line through a mid-ship hawse, but that line was always the first line to the dock so I could use the engine fore and aft to snug the boat up to the dock before setting dock lines, and it was removed and coiled after the other lines were secure. I guess I’m curious why so many other C&Cers have added mid-ship cleats? Rick Brass Imzadi C&C 38 mk2 #47 la Belle Aurore C&C 25 mk1 #225 Washington, NC
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