Soft Webbing Strap Eyes If you want to put shock cording or perimeter lines on your kayak, Pygmy™ offers a kit that includes hard plastic strap eyes that you screw into your hull. They stick up and are a bit cheap looking. An easy, strong, softer, and much better looking solution is to make your own soft strap eyes out of nylon webbing material. Go to your local sewing/fabric store and buy some ¾” wide polypropylene webbing (NOT cloth!). You’ll cut them to 4.5” so get as much as you need to cover all the pad eyes you plan to use. It's usually sold by the yard so get at least two. It's cheap. I bought mine at Seattle Fabrics for $0.55/yard. They also have many other colors and widths! I usually get black because it doesn’t fade as quickly, but these are so easy to make that if you choose another color you can easily replace them later if they fade. You’ll also need stainless steel hardware:   12 to 16 or more #10/32 x ¾” Stainless Steel Machine Screws and #1...