> You can pull your float bags, or your luggage, into the ends of your boat
> easily if you build in a corrosion resistant ring or a pulley (aluminum,
> brass, bronze, stainless steel, etc). at each end. Run a rope through this
> and attach one end of the rope to your gear. Pulling on the other end gets
> the bage all the way into the end. Tie off the rope to keep it from later
> shifting places. A second rope attached to the other end of your bag will
> make it easier to retrieve from those recesses.

> Paul G. Jacobson

Paul, Wouldn't the water go in wherever the rope goes in. That would eliminate the first defence, water tight hatches. Rehd