Lash Hook 1 hole

A small open hook for a deck. A lashing hook gives bungee or a strap something to grab that is not a permanent loop — hook it on, unhook it, done, no threading and no knots.

Lashing Hook or Closed Loop

Choose a hook when the thing being held comes off regularly. A crate you lift out at the end of every trip, a cooler that goes in and out, a dry bag you strike and re-lash. With a closed loop you have to feed the cord through every single time; with a hook you drop it on.

Choose a loop when the rigging is permanent and you never want it to come adrift — perimeter line, paddle parks, hatch retainers. Anything that is holding something for safety reasons wants a closed loop, because a hook can be shaken off.

This Lashing Hook Is Small and Single-Hole

This lashing hook is small — roughly an inch overall — and takes one #6 round-head screw. A single hole makes replacement genuinely easy: nothing to line up, and if the old hole is chewed you can rotate the hook slightly and bite fresh plastic.

It is UV-resistant injection-moulded nylon, so it will not corrode and it will not mark a hull the way a metal hook can.

Fitting

Bed it in sealant. On a rotomoulded hull, a #6 screw is small enough that a well nut may not be practical — in that case use a self-tapping screw into solid plastic and check it once a season, or back it with a small washer inside if you can reach.

Do not over-torque a small fastener into polyethylene. It will feel tight and then strip, and you will be moving over an inch and starting again.

Details

• Nylon lashing hook, single hole

• Approximately 15/16" overall

• UV-resistant injection-moulded nylon

• One #6 round-head fastener

On the hardware board at our Clearwater shop.