My (six) lines all have loops. The initial lines have the loops through and over the boat's cleats for security and to save space. Generally the breast ropes will be there and back and the first made fast. The springs will often consist of a loop taken ashore to the cleat. Releasing them is never a problem since they can invariably be slackened from the boat and taken off well before departing, when the breast ropes can be cast off from aboard. Of course, some flexibility is needed, especially if mooring to a hoop or a tree, or if someone has left a bird's nest on the only cleat.
You're a man of some fibre, I can see.
Drat, I could have used that word. You certainly have some moral fibre.
Your puns are really coming unravelled now.
Don’t worry about them; they’re just round the bend.
Yes. He’s encountered a hitch.
I tried to sheet everything in by keeping a-breast of the situation. Sorry to spring this on you at this late hour.
Fair enough - we often have to move with wind
They will probably ply their trade to the bitter end.
He’d probably tell you to get knotted
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