Accessing Pop-Up Cleats

[Robert Sands]

Hi everyone,

The past few times out in the boat I've noticed that the washers and nuts are coming off my pop-up cleats. I find them in odd places in the boat. Right now it's just the mid-ship cleats, but if this happened to the port and starboard mid-ship cleats I fear I need to tighten or fix the rest of them.

My main issue is, how to you get to them, starting with the mid-ship cleats? I know one other member of our forum had this issue, but I couldn't see a fix on that thread. Thanks.

 

[Speed_Freak_039A]

I had all kinds of hardware in the bottom of my boat. Hose clamp. Pen. Washers. Sheet metal screws. I think in my case they dropped it during assembly and said screw it and grabbed a new one. Im curious how your going to get to your cleats on the back side.