: So the boat itself doesn't fit you.

True... but I have not run into a commercial boat which can fit someone by this definition. Take the kayak from which you excised the seat several days ago. (picture attached)

If the kayaker fits between the cheek plates, they certainly are not going to be able to fit against the side of the kayak in the same way that one can in a SOF. In my Perception Carolina, the distance from those hip braces and the side of the kayak is several inches.

I fit nice and snug as a bug in a rug between the hip braces, but they push my hips an additional 3 or 4 inches up from the waterline. I think it is this (and the high volume of the Carolina) which give me difficulty in balance bracing it instead of turning turtle. I think that if the boat were designed in an anatomic way with no more than an inch or two between my hip and the side of the kayak that many of the Greenland manuvers would be much easier... (And the kayak would require a lot more skill, and the kayak could be a good deal faster.)

No one is going to get Perception to build its production boats to this anatomic standard. But, it seems to me, we should, as Strip Built (see KayakWiki kayak builders, be able to approach the anatomic driven design taken as gospel by Morris, Starr and the other SOF builders.

(adding further "wood" to the flame...

Rick