Look in Fall "94" issue of Sea Kayaker "Building a Plywood Greenland Kayak" the article explains a very workable structurally sound solution. It is more simplistic and may not be as fancy as the pictures shown in this thread...willy

> I'd like to install 3/16 inch nylon line around the periphery of the deck
> on my Coho to make grabbing the kayak from the water easier. I've got some
> more of the same (cheap) black padeyes which Pygmy sends for installing
> the bungee cord deck rigging, and had planned to thread the line through
> them, perhaps with a jam cleat reachable from the cockpit. However, I'm
> stymied by how I'd install a padeye at the bow and at the stern, since I
> don't currently have hatches and find my arms a little short to reach
> eight feet to the bow to install washers and nuts from the inside of the
> deck. I thought of pop rivets (are they available in stainless steel?),
> but that seemed pretty flimsy for a fitting that I want to be secure. How
> do people do this if they weren't smart enough to think of it before
> installing the deck, and if they don't have hatches because they're still
> using a sea sock? Am I out of luck? Mike