Charles,
To follow up with my last post on rigging the line, I run the 1/8" line from the cockpit forward on top of the deck beams, over and around the forwardmost deck beam and back to the cocpit. I feed it through one of the masik lashings and sew it back to the other end to form a continuous loop. Leave an 8" tail to tie to the bag. That routing keeps the line to the side and out of the way.
: Anyway, from the helpful posts I've gotten in reply to my original msg, I'm
: leaning toward setting up a haul system to pull commercial bags in and out
: of the kayak. I'm paying close attention to the suggestions for securing
: the cords out of the way so I don't get hung up in a wet exit.
: cjk