: Tom --

: Yep, the subject *is* securing hatches --- and I hope you didn't take offense
: at my previous response to your previous post....my intention was offer a
: humorously polite suggestion, since posts are much easier to read when
: they aren't written in all caps... perhaps it is an "American
: thing" but over the course of the past 8 years of being online in
: various ways, there have been numerous occasions where the analogy of ALL
: CAPS = yelling or shouting has been made.. and by more than just
: me....though, most likely, always by Americans. Perhaps Americans just
: tend to yell more than others?

Dog Goneit Julie, now I can hardly hear Tom. :) You building anything now? Haven't seen much from you in a while. The Boys at the office gettin' jealous yet? Have you made any converts?.....to kayaking??

Rehd

: At any rate, somebody at the West Coast Roundezvous in Pt. Townsend in August
: had hatch straps they'd gotten from Eddyline (located in Anacortes, WA)...
: it had a black cam buckle.... but instead of being two straps hooked
: together in the middle, it was a single strap that hooked to a J hook on
: the other side...with the cam buckle providing tension. I don't remember
: whether the cam buckle was plastic or metal, but I do remember that it was
: a more asthetically pleasing solution than the Pygmy version... and that
: the cam buckle was a little smaller than Pygmy's. The builder/owner was
: quite satisfied with it. I'd had only a brief look at it, since other
: commitments had prevented me from spending much time at the roundezvous,
: but I liked what I saw!

: Julie