Looking for an Albin Deck Cleat

[NickScheuer]

Anybody got an extra Albin Deck Cleat they wouldn't mind parting with? I'd like to add another, the sort with a wooden dowel extending horizontally through a pair of Bronze stanchions.

[DesertAlbin736]

I don't have any extras myself, but I stumbled across the original source for these cleats. That is new, not used/old. They are manufactured in Italy by Foresti & Suardi of Milan.

As seen on this website

http://www.nauticexpo.com/prod/foresti- ... tem_328630

The Foresti & Suardi website is all in Italian, but they do have an email address, to which I've sent an inquiry to & will see if I get any reply about where/how to obtain them.

Steve Eshleman
A25 #736

[DesertAlbin736]

Nick, did you ever get those cleats you were looking for? Mine arrived a few days ago from The Brassworks Inc. & I installed a pair as amidships cleats. Don't have any pix of them installed yet, but they look great. So good in fact I'm going to save my pennies and buy another pair eventually to replace the two existing stern cleats which look positively shabby in comparison. I think you can actually but just the teak dowels and/or the posts separately from Plastimo, but the chrome on the posts of my old ones are worn, so I'll probably just buy the whole cleat assembly. These puppies ain't cheap though, $51 each plus shipping. But at least now I have a good set of 'midships cleats for when I need spring lines for tricky docking manuvers.