Cleats or Bollards?

[rustybarge]

Alarm - the old Poole Police launch - was an Aquabell 28 or something like that and she these fitted to her. Looked good and really easy to use. You could take a loop underneath the crossbar and then drop it back on itself and under the outer bit of the cross bars and it would never come adrift or you could just use it as a cleat and put a figure of eight or two on it.

Those bollards are thing of beauty, a piece of sculpture.

 

[rustybarge]

OP top right is my preference as sometimes we moor alongside a quay that is way above deck level and you can pass the line through the eye before making fast and it cant slip off.

The bottom on in op is only any good if the deck line is level or above where you are mooring alongside ie a pontoon or another boat at the same level.

The single bit with a cross tree I have on my boat at the stern and its difficult to secure more than one line on it.

Give me top right in op each time.

That's my experience as well, the line tries to fall off the top of a single bollard, unless it's very thin rope.
The double twin bollard arrangement is what they use on ships.
Cleats don't have much room for multiple lines.

 

[jesca]

I think cleats are more versatile - there are more ways of attaching things to them.

In its defense, there are types of bollards which are small and handy while still being sturdy!

 

[Portland Billy]

As said earlier, and being pedantic - a single bollard is a bollard, a double 'bollard' is a set of bits.