I asked Peter if he would be interested in having hatches in his Sea Bea and he was interested. I showed him the SeaLect Design hatches and the method of installing at Kudzu Craft and he was instantly put off (no offense, Jeff). He figured I was planning something that didn't stand out so much (I think he had the notion that I would somehow create flush mounted "skin" hatches like on Fishstalker).

Has anyone come up with a "hatch" that doesn't look like a hatch? We are planning on covering with 14oz polyester sewed down the center of the deck. The only thing I could come up with was a zipper, like on some of the folding kayaks I have seen. I doubt the zipper would do the job for accessing just the area near the bow and stern (you know, the areas that you can't reach unless you crawl into the cockpit wrong end first...).

Anyone done anything like this before?