Re: [Paddlewise] requested review of the Avocet

>Anyone know any method of gluing an eyestrap to the underside of
>the rubber VCP hatch to attach a cord from there to the bulkhead?

==  I cut a small rubber strip from a cheap door mat, scraped an area of the
underside of the VCP hatch as well as one side of the rubber strip, then
used contact cement to glue the two together, with a plastic D-ring at the
center of the rubber strip.  The cement is the same stuff that is used for
patching tires.  These have held for a couple of seasons.  Be sure to
roughen the rubber on the underside of the VCP hatch well, or the glue will
not hold.    Inside the hatch, the D-rings are held in place by stiff
plastic ring-holders made for the purpose (from NRS?), and glued to the
fiberglass with Marine Goop.

    Bob Volin

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