n apparatus is provided for affixing a first object to a second object, the first object having a fastening receptacle and the second object having a fastening receptacle, comprising: an elongated strap having a first portion and a second portion; a length adjustment member, the first strap portion and the second strap portion extending from the length adjustment member, for alternately shortening and lengthening the combined length of the first and second strap portions; the first strap portion further having a first loop and an elongated, longer second loop extending from the first strap portion and beyond the first loop, the extent to which the second loop extends beyond the first loop being large enough such that the elongated second loop can be routed to encompass the first object fastening receptacle and then routed back to the first loop; a fastening member for securing the first loop to the second loop when the second loop is routed back to the first loop from the first object fastening receptacle; and the second strap portion having a first loop and an elongated, longer second loop extending from the second strap portion and beyond the second strap portion first loop, the extent to which the second loop extends beyond the first loop being large enough such that the elongated second loop can be routed to encompass the second object fastening receptacle and then routed back to the first loop, the apparatus further comprising a second fastening member for securing the first loop to the second strap portion second loop when the second loop is routed back to the first loop from the second object fastening receptacle. In another embodiment, the first object fastening receptacle is a cleat having two legs, a cross piece joining the two legs and, with the first object, forming a cleat opening between the legs, and further wherein the second loop has a distal end and a length such that the second loop can be placed to loop the two cleat legs and the second loop distal end can then be drawn through the cleat opening as the second loop distal end is routed back to the first loop, wherein it is fastenable to the first loop using the fastening member. In another embodiment, the second object fastening receptacle is a cleat having two legs, a cross piece joining the two legs and, with the second object, forming a cleat opening between the legs, and further wherein the second strap portion second loop has a distal end and a length such that the second loop can be placed to loop the two cleat legs and the second loop distal end can then be drawn through the cleat opening as the second loop distal end is routed back to the second strap portion first loop, wherein it is fastenable to the first loop using the 