You can make wooden D-rings that are plenty strong from 1 1/4" hardwood dowels. Then you can just bed them in epoxy/woodflour putty without having to mess with glass cloth.

Here's the "hardware" I made for mu WD12 invisible hatch hold-downs. That's a pair of scissors on the left for scale. Click on the pictire to enlarge it.

Have fun,

Laszlo

Try that again, copy/paste error and there's no edit facility.

OK, so linking via a picture seems to be busted now. The forum software brings up a link to the thumbnail instead of the link target. Here's the link to the larger picture:

http://www.morocz.com/BoatBuilding/images/71_hatchbits.jpg

And here's the link showing how the pieces are attached to the boat:

http://www.morocz.com/BoatBuilding/DuckBuild9.htm

Have fun,

Laszlo

Thanks Laszlo. Another simple. elegant solution. I started my build last October and I cannot remember how many times your posts, whether in response to my question or someonwe elses, kept me out of trouble. Really appreciate it.