: my personal belief is that rubrails are put on by designers who don't paddle
: kayaks. looks like they're more used to canoes, sailboats, and runabouts.

: try rolling one w/ nice hard 1/4 x3/4 or more rubrails or doing low sculls
: and they or your knuckles will come real off fast. save the bucks for an
: extra glass seam layer. if the join is ugly maybe a thin line of paint.

: -mick

The stripper I'm building now will leave screw heads showing if I don't do something. They're along the top edge of the hull where they go into sheer clamps. I saw a nice production kayak with a sheer strip of textile in a geometric design. This got me thinking that I could use a piece of ribbon, maybe an open sort of weave so it would bond well with epoxy, to cover the screws and glass tape over it. Then I got thinking it could be reflective material, nice visibility. In the end it seemed to be a wood sheer strip for the apperance of it.
Seriously, though, is a sheer strip going to bash your knuckles on a 24 inch wide kayak where the hull and deck meet at abt 80 degrees? I can easily use a piece of 1/16 veneer under tape if it does.