I tryed the pulling in to the wind and blocking it but since i live in canberra australia this doesn't work to well but I think this technipue take's practice. I sail on a lake which isn't very wide say 50meters but very long. I put the cleat down a hole and was to low to uncleat, even if i was on the tramp I couldn't uncleat it. My crew and i have tryed to tamper with the block to change the angle but didn't turn out so well so is there some thing to angle the cleat/block better?