Possible Clues:

• Religious recluse
• Recluse
• 'The hermit will have the ship made fast and correct, by the sound of it (9)'
• Hermit
• What a sailor might do to a ship when taking on English hermit
• All by oneself one may stick it in the bottom and tie it in a knot
• Cornerstone, it is a point made by a hermit
• Hermit told to moor ship by the point
• To stop the ship, 'e is the one alone to do it (9)
• How 'e might secure the boat all by himself?