They included all the hardware to install snaps,you would need the tool to install them but I did not use them,it lays nice and flat. It would take only a couple of seconds to roll it up and store it below if you didn't want to track it up when fishing
actually, I lied about the one last question, that was second to last, what's the backing like? will it scrach my new deck if it slides around a little? that's it, I promise, thank you