I'm Not Much Help Here But I Feel Your Pain.:)

Dennis (and JZ), welcome aboard. Your first posts, I see.

But Dennis, I note that you're from Brentwood Bay, which makes me ask the question, Why would you feel the need for a lock on the lazarette? Aren't Canadians (and even Pacific Northwest You-Alls) just the nicest folks you've ever run across?

I have cruised Puget Sound extensively and Canadian waters as far as Desolation Sound, and I've never felt the need to lock the lazarettes or even the cockpit locker on my boat. I did install an interior lock on the companionway slide, for security inside the boat when I feel it's needed (that's written up in the Technical - Upgrades section of our website), but I've never locked the lazarette or the locker. And I also have a padlock on my outboard motor.

He's probably heard about those pesky Americans that visit from time to time :p Pick your pockets, hack your laptop and snitch the beer right out of your lazarette.

How about remove the padlock when you are sailing?
Have you checked out the West Marine catalogue for locking options?

Our boats, IIRC, are very similar to yours in that regard. Ours came with a padlock, but it was offset to one side and has never been a leg knocker. Could you just slide it over a bit? We keep a lock on it, being here in the lower 48. In fact, I realized that we rarely even bother opening the lazarette, or even taking the lock off at all!:)

We keep our "stuff" that we regularly need, like lines and cleaning stuff, in the port locker and only use the lazarette when we're away for a cruise (dinghy foot pump, other BIG stuff) or when we're racing (fenders - I always leave 'em flopped over the lifelines on deck for day sails or simple over-nighters).

It's a bloody cave down there!:eek:

You could put a padeye on the underside of the lid at the starboard forward corner. Attach a line and run it through a small hole in aft berth hanging locker. Mount a jam cleat in the aft berth locker to secure line

Hi Dennis
I know what you mean! Ours was a pest like yours - and with the chunk out of the front edge of the lid (for the rudder stock) the ends tended to flex up and allow water into the lazarette when we were heeled and taking green water over the bow. The water ran along the coaming and sloshed over the lazarette lid.
So I made new rubber seals and fitted two cam - locks about 40cm in from either end. The locks don't interfere with helming, and the extra pull down helps seal the lazarette lid properly.
We still use a padlock when we go away from the boat for more than a few days :)

BTW a bit of polythene tape extending the coaming means most of the water is ejected over the transom when we are on a passage...

[QUOTE=andersonda;10244]Has anyone found a method of locking the lazarette without a padlock hasp(s)?
Helmsperson with shredded calves is protesting
Best regards

Dennis Anderson CHARDONNAY - Brentwood Bay, BC[/QUOTE]

Old thread, but I thought I'd throw this out anyway. A really nice treatment to protect the lazarette is to have a line from the bottom of the lazarette forward, through the bulkhead and into the cabin. To lock it, you put a cam cleat in the cabin and pull it tight. Lazarette then can only be opened by releasing the cam cleat from the cabin. Not too handy for the stern lockers, but will work for port or starboard. I think I first saw this done on an S2.