MAN, Lee! I should have figured you'd come up with something off the wall! Are you saying to glass the wood first, then drill the holes and mount the T-nuts? Also, I don't think I have any scraps of okoume left. I've got some lauan, and I even have some 1/4" pine lattice strips. Would either of these be alright? I've already got the through-holes drilled in the rails. I actually left the original threaded holes intact and put some new ones in, countersunk for flathead screws - What a job, the heads for 1/4" flatheads are about 1/2" in diameter, so I had to drill for clearance between the sides of the rails first before I could get the countersink through. Dennis

: Hi Dennis, for what it's worth here's a way to make the process more
: complicated. 1/2" on either side reduces what already is a tight fit
: for my size 11 ft. A simple solution is to use 4mm ply, cut the tabs down
: enough, glass the 4mm with 2 layers 9oz tape then install the nuts,eeek
: with half the wood removed for the recess. For an even more over board way
: to make the nuts flush, cut the tabs off, lay 4 2" strips of
: unidirectional carbon over the t-nut then install with a piece of plastic
: covered ply(temporary for making the goopy carbon flat) between rails and
: carbon. Oh and holes need to drilled through the threaded part of the
: rails with a screw (allen is easier to install) holding the rail on.