: Nah! They are about 17 inches. The blocks will pull the tissues in closer to
: the bones.

Which isn't necessary...you could easily put the cheekplates 1/2" outside the inner surface of the coaming...when you rotate your torso, your butt goes down below the coaming inner edge...and you still have something to attach your backband to.

I don't have any pads at all in my Dagger Redline WW yak, and can roll it just fine.

Knee bracing is more important than hip bracing for rolling a yak anyway. You can maintain a lot of side-to-side control with a well fitting seat and no hip padding.

See my seat and kneehook pages:
http://www.geocities.com/shawnkayak/seat
http://www.geocities.com/shawnkayak/kneehook

: OK. I will attempt to make the rim of the coaming as low as possible for this
: one. We'll see what happens.

A double stripped recess would look sweet on the Guillemot!

: Oh, yeah, and then glass it back in.

No, if you had to cut it off, you'd likely want to leave it off!!

Shawn