Get a new safety wire for your kayak watchmount. Use any of your original/old watch holders and tie a figure-eight knot to secure it. It comes with a pre-installed carabiner so you can attach it to your rudder link inside the kayak.

For the rope, we chose paracord which is a nylon rope that was designed for parachute

. This is the 2mm version where the more standard version is the 4mm, but that is way to strong and thick to be a safry line.

Specs:

• Paracord Length: 150 cm (1,5m)
• Paracord width: 2mm
• Paracord cores: braded 4 cores
• Carabiner size: ~24mm long
• Carabiner opening size: ~4mm