It drives me absolutely insane when a footstrap comes loose while I am sailing.

I have to sail back to the beach with one foot strapped in and the other footstrap dangling about, which I find awkward as hell. Then dropping the kite and running to the car and back to tighten the screw.

Huge waste of time when I could be sailing. I don't want to use loctite, because it is a bastard to get the screw out when I want it out and softset loctite will still work loose anyway.

Who know where I can find a short stainless steel screw driver which I can keep in my harness pocket, so that when the occasion arrives, I can do a quick tighten up out on the water?

flat blade or philips head ? if its flat blade you could make one easy enough

hey dude
cant help you with the screwdriver, but you should check out the north footpads. gurantee they will never come loose. i did mine up when i got my board in october last year and have not had to tighten them up since. they have a real good groove system on the screws and foot beds, that lock into each other when you do them up.
i get to kite every day that its windy so they have had heaps of chance to wiggle loose, but it hasnt happend!!!!
check them out mate, and it wont be a problem you think about anymore

put abit of loc-tite thread lock on your screw threads. that'l stop em.!

for stainless steel screw-drivers (and any other boat/seatools) try your local boat shop. you could cut one down. i swapped some off my bolts for "cap screws" so i can use an allen key. cheap and easy to carry. ok so it was a snowboard but works the same.

Check em before you go out......

One thing I do to make sure this does not happen often(have not had it happen for years) is make sure have the right "bit/driver head" for the screw head. You can't get decent torque out of incompatible screw heads/ bits. They all look the same but there are 2 different formats of cross head and about 6 sizes in each! If you get the right one with the right one (and a FAT handled driver) it makes a world of difference. Allen key screws are cool but no one ever has an allen key when u need one most at the beach one time. Use high quality 316 grade stainless screws.

Anzor in auckland - but they have a mimimum spend - there is somewhere else near Wairau park that does not - look up stainless fasteners...