> Rehd, He's talking about a system totally within the hatch. Say you put a
> D-ring way down in the bow end of the boat and another just inside the
> hatch opening. Run a cord so that you have a big loop running through both
> (obviously you would have to do this in the middle of your building
> process -- it would be tough to string it afterwards.) Attach your dry bag
> to a small loop off the side of this cord, then pull the cord as you would
> a curtain in the window of your house to send the bag down to the end.
> Dean

Sorry !

My thought process took me into a capsized boat and a flooded cockpit, and if the rope/line was leading from the cockpit into the watertight section, then, so too would the water go into that section, through the same path as the rope/line. ( different picture in my mind, postal employee mentality, too much negativity ) {:o)

Rehd