: Team

: The idea for holding down hatches in rough conditions (or for me with my bad
: luck, just paddling along anywhere) has led me to use screw down fittings.
: The problem with that is that the fittings can be lost.

: Jurgen who has a biz building kayaks uses brass latches (but won't share the
: source of them) which seems to be a good idea. We're building a SG Night
: Heron and the hatch hold-downs are being considered. So looking around we
: found small s/s straight-loop catches at
: http://www.spdhardware.com/lc2.htm

: We're thinking to use 4 per hatch
: Catch: CAC201X
: Striker: CAS201X

: When we get back we'll install them and report on the effectivness. Dave
: ordered them a couple days ago.
They look the same as the DAXX ones on my hinge templete tool box. I have lost count how many times the FXBFSSE thing has droped open on me. I think with the hard deck they will work better but if you ever have put a body on the deck they will bite, maybe reccesed would do and look cool.
Don