Expedition Wherry - The project that will never end! (hatch latches)

[Steve_Mccormick]

Here's the deal. I have pretty much finished up my Expedition Wherry, with just the deck hatches to cut out and then clear coat the deck.  I have been dragging my feet for two weeks on cutting the deck hatches because I don't like the hatch toggles as a mechanism for dogging it.  It is not that I believe the designed system is insufficient, it is 100% an aesthetic objection.

I have a few ideas for a different mechanism but was wondering if anyone else has considered and implemented a different solution.

 

 

 

 

The side of the boat

 

 

[Edward_Brubaker]

 Try this.  It works.  

http://www.clcboats.com/shoptips/fitting_out/hatches_no_toggles.html

By the way, pretty boat.

 

Ed.