I just had a revelation (read: brain-fart) about footbraces, especially with regards to people like me with size 12 clod-hoppers. Since some of us don't bolt our Yakima or Keeper footbraces through the side of the hull, choosing instead to mount them via T-nuts, is there any good reason they couldn't be mounted on the lower hull or deck instead? My thinking is that the rails of those standard footbraces take up about an inch total from the width of the inside of the kayak. If you were to glue the footbraces to the deck, or in the case of a more hard-chined boat, to the floor, I think you'd gain some real estate for your toes. You would have to put a plate on the supplied footrest pad to gain some extra surface area for your foot, like someone here posted a picture of a few weeks ago.

Of course there's still the method of using a couple of foam blocks as footbraces (or a U) against the bulkhead to gain footroom, but this idea came to me as a way to still have the standard bolt-in footrests for use by others as well.

Dean