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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranchero50" data-source="post: 321991" data-attributes="member: 1523">Ha, I'm not an internet bully, just an internet pessimist.  Life has treated me well because I always try to figure out the best way to do things not necessarily the easiest.  This boat goes 50+ mph on water.  Vibration and speed is hard on latches so I'd expect the latch to fail and the lid to pop up eventually and if it would require me to remember to latch it every time I move it's certainly going to fly up more than once.  As a boat manufacturer they should know better than to rely on the end user to latch the darned thing all the time.  The cover should have been designed to hold itself down by it's weight at the very least and be designed so wind wouldn't get under the lip to lift it up.  To build a poorly designed cover and expect the end user to latch it every time is indeed a novice move on the builder part.On the boat I designed and built the covers do not pop open on their own and I didn't need latches to hold them either.Per the stress crack, if the corner joint isn't supported correctly it'll flex and pop.  Again as a designer and builder you need to figure on these things and build to prevent them.  Is the crack simply from the user weight on the joint or is it induced from hull flex?  Lots of dynamics to figure out and plan for.  Shoddy manufacturing should be the last reason for a failure, especially where it should have been a simple weld.</blockquote>

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