Not arguing with your logic of using the crossbeam cleats as fairleads, I can see how this keeps the lines in the right place and not bearing on handrails etc. I'm fairly inexperienced with cats and mooring balls but I thought the whole point of using a bridle was to keep the two lines wide apart to reduce swinging? By using the narrower cleats as fairleads you are transferring the fulcrum points inboard quite a bit or is it not enough to make a difference? Interested to learn from others knowledge.
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