I think the answer to the initial poster's question is LocTite. However, my Wave dismasted in relatively heavy winds when one of the forestay bolts pulled free of the hull. Hobie replaced the whole hull, and I was told by the retailer that there was a batch of the brass fittings which are molded into the hull which had been failing at a surprising rate. The retailer used a tap to deepen the threading on the unaffected hull to try to ward off the problem there. Has anyone else seen this?