Boating 101: How to Tie a Clove Hitch

Learn how to tie a clove hitch in this boating video. Expert: Toby Stull

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Hi, my name is Toby Stull and I'm captain with Out in the Water Sailing. We're an adventure sports sailing company, providing charters, sailing lessons, vessel training and consulting. Please visit our website at www.out-sailing.com. We're here today in Liberty Harbor to talk about boating. When you are coming into a dock, sometimes there will not be a cleat to tie to. In such incidence, we either have to tie to a post or to a piling like this. Lot of time when that happens we use a clove hitch. To tie a clove hitch make sure that you have enough line tail to go around the post 2-3 times. Wrap your line around the post or piling and take the end underneath the leading side of the line, wrap it around again and make sure your end goes through that second loop, now we are secure with a clove hitch.

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  • Toby Stull

    An American Sailing Association certified instructor and lifelong sailor, Toby Stull runs the first professional sailing school and charter business in the nation that is directed at LGBT sailors, Out on the Water Sailing. His gay owned and operated adventure-sports sailing company encourages diversity and welcomes all students regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, or skill level, offering sailing lessons, charters, vessel training, and destination vacations. Toby is an experienced yachtsman and instructor having raced through college, in multiple Block Island race weeks, as well as several Long Island Sound campaigns. Toby has restored and lived aboard several sailboats including a C&C 35 Mark 1, on which he won several regattas with in Eastern Long Island Sound and has held several professional crew positions aboard vessels up to 140 feet.