When used correctly this cleat hitch is by far the most reliable knot used to secure your boat to a horn cleat mounted on a dock.
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OK so you’re going to want to take the… Take the tail of the rope and go around three hundred and sixty degrees and do a cross-over. Then go behind the horn and cross over again.
When you get to the other side. You want to just turn a little loop into it like that and pull on it. And you have a perfect cleat hitch.
See how this knot deconstructed is nothing more than a modified clove hitch in my video:
