£23 for 2 plastic Barton, flag halyard cleats, PBO alternative?

[Yeoman_24]

Other than a rolling hitch, any suggestions for a cheap, effective and PBO, diy beautiful alternative?

 

[Bodach na mara]

Go to a kitchen supplier and buy a thick plastic chopping board. They are available in a firm but softish plastic about 10 mm thick. It is easily cut with a saw and you can cut strips from it and shape them into cleat blanks. These can be shaped with a Stanley knife into cleats.

 

[William_H]

Is this what you want. Surely available in UK at a similar price.
https://www.whitworths.com.au/nylon-cleat
olewill

 

[Yeoman_24]

Is this what you want. Surely available in UK at a similar price.
https://www.whitworths.com.au/nylon-cleat

olewill

Uk price is equivalent of 21 Aussie dollars each!

 

[Goldie]

I’m guessing you mean the type that clamp to rigging wire? If so, I used the ‘standard’ plastic cleats, loaded a needle with some strong whipping twine and effectively sewed them to the wire using the cleat’s screw holes. Very neat - the whipping twine is all but invisible - and very strong. Two years to date and as good as new.

 

[ctva]

I got one of the Barton cleats many years ago when we got the boat for one side, on the other side, I just use a rolling hitch. When I get around to it, I'll ditch the cleat.

 

[Iain C]

I could not believe the price a few years ago either when I needed to similarly equip my Sabre. So I just rummaged in the dinghy tool box and found some cheap plain bearing dinghy blocks (£3.90 new if you don't have one) and basically tied it to the base of the mast with a piece of bungee under tension. The burgees were permamently rigged on the "loop" halyard, and I could just pull them up and down at will...tucking them in the inboard end of the mainsail cover when leaving the boat for any time. The friction in the system caused by the cheap block/bungee meant that the burgees never fell down when flying.

My new Bav32 has those cleat things, but I'm fairly convinced I'm either going to poke my eye out or shred a kite on one, so I'm seriously thinking of going back to my old system...

http://www.bosuns.co.uk/PBAL-4078-1-Allen-Brothers-16mm-Plain-Bearing-Stainless-Single-block

 

[john_morris_uk]

I got one of the Barton cleats many years ago when we got the boat for one side, on the other side, I just use a rolling hitch. When I get around to it, I'll ditch the cleat.

Don’t ditch it; flog it on eBay. It’s a valuable item apparently.

 

[SAMYL]

I don't use a cleat at all. I have the flag halyard loop down to about two feet from the deck. It is held taught by a clip on the end of a piece of bungee which is attached to the shackle at the base of the shroud.
The flag can be run up or down whilst this is rigged and when the flag is removed the bungee keeps the halyard taught.
No cleat required.

 

[LadyInBed]

Google - window blind cleats

 

[VicS]

Force4

A range of sizes from £1.95 each!

..... See https://www.force4.co.uk/force-4-nylon-cleats-m.html


OR

.... In two sizes from £2.25 See https://www.force4.co.uk/allen-nylon-jam-cleats-m.html