RE: [Paddlewise] Olive cleats

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Treby [mailto:ptreby_at_ozemail.com.au]
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 1:41 AM
> To: Paddlewise
> Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Olive cleats
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> The free end of the bungy is passed
> through hole A from the side opposite the channel, and pulled 
> into the channel
> to secure it. The channel narrows at the end of the cleat to 
> about 3-4mm, to
> further compress the bungy cord and lock it in position.
> Clear as mud? Dave, send me $20 AUD to PO Box 118 Heidelberg 
> Victoria Australia
> 3084 and I'll send as many as I can to you for whatever 
> freight and cleats the
> twenty bucks will cover. The cleats themselves cost the 
> princely sum of $1.20
> each. They are very handy.
> Regards, Peter T.
> 
So, as I understand it, an olive cleat is:

  Not mechanically fastened to a surface, but is rather "free-floating" and
only attached to the bungie?

  Basically allows you to easily manage the size of the bungie loop?

As for your generous offer to purchase and mail some olive cleats - by the
time the freight from Australia to Alaska was calculated in I think they'd
be about $10.00 US apiece!!  Thanks, but I'll just have to wait to see an
olive cleat in the flesh when I take a trip to New Zealand or Australia.

Good Paddling!
Dave Seng
Juneau, Alaska

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