[frayed_knot]

Welcome to the fold! Being as it's an '84, he don't have that same setup as far as the walls go. Does it have a rod going from the back side of the bow eye up to the cleat on the top of the bow? It's inside. If it does, it could be the deck has pulled away from the screws on the cleat. Mine did that, the cleat stuck up above the deck about an inch. I cut a piece of 1/8" aluminum plate about 6" square, bored a hole in it big enough for the rod, removed the rod with the cleat attached, pushed the new plate onto the rod and ran up 2 new stainless nuts behind the plate, reinstalled the rod and tightened it up, then I ran the bolts and plate up to the underside of the deck until it was snug up to the bottom of the cleat and tightened the second nut up to the first. It's good and tight and very solid now.