In the older marinas with wooden floating dock, Pac. NW, they don't have
cleats on the dock. They have 4"X4" along the edge of the slip fingers,
called "toe rails". So a looped end or large eye wouldn't helped the dock
person. For a quick tie up the bitter end of the line must be passed under
the 'toe rail' and tied off to the standing part or with an some form of
figure 8 where the support blocks are.

However, no one ever seems to do this correctly and the line length, boat
position is seldom correct the first time, so I just let them tie or off
with a round turn, enough to hold the boat into the dock and do the final
adjusment myself.

Since this type of dock is regional, I won't get into the correct and proper
method to tie off to these "toe rails".

Steve
s/v Good Intentions