You will probably want to go to the trouble of glassing the coaming. It's just a matter of time before a guest will brace on it when entering/exiting and "crack" goes the coaming.

Heres a little trick I tried successfully. Make sure the glass will wrap down the coaming to the hull and hang into the cockpit for 4-6 inches. Get a dozen plastic clothes pins, use them to hold the dry glass over the lip. Wet out the glass with your favorite method, trying in vain to get the glass to lay down around all of those confounded curves. Cut a large plastic garbage bag into 6" wide strips and wrap these around the newly wet glass by removing one clothes pin at a time, then replacing it over the bag strip. Stretch the heck out of the plastic and it will force the glass to lay on the wood and the epoxy to flow/fill. It may take 1/2 dozen strips of plastic and 2-3 wraps around the cockpit, but you can make the glass wrap to the wood. Just pretend your making a mummy! Evenly clip some weight to the excess length hanging into the cockpit to assure it lays against the interior of the coaming. I did this on my 17' S.G. Guillemot and it was SOO much easier than the cluster f*** method I used on my Auk. The next time I do this, I will pre-steal the saran wrap from the kitchen, it will let me see through and the self grabbing properties may help also

Good luck! Vernon

: I spent all evening trying to get fiberglass fabric to lie flat on all sides
: of the cockpit coaming on my Spring Run. I finally gave up.

: Since the coaming and the lip are made out of walnut and ash laminated with
: epoxy, do they really need fiberglass?

: Brian