Sailing Cleats

A Sailing Cleat does one job: hold the line under load and release it cleanly when you need it gone. Pick the wrong type or undersize it, and you'll either lose grip mid-trim or fight the line every ease. This category covers sailing cam cleats for sheet and halyard work, sail boat cam cleat units with fairleads for clean lead angles, sailing rope clam cleat designs for light control lines, and sailing rope cleats sized from 1/8" to 9/16" line.

Cleat Types and What They're Built For

How to Size a Sailing Cleat?

Undersized cleats slip. Oversized cleats won't bite light lines. Stay inside the published diameter range, through-bolt anything on a load-bearing line, and size the cleat to your line before you buy the line. For offshore use, look for 316 stainless internals and UV-stabilized housings. Match cleats to upstream sailboat blocks and sailing winches so the whole system shares the same load rating.

Building a full boat or restocking a fleet? Request bulk pricing on the volume discounts on DK Hardware page for cam, clam, and rope cleat orders.

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