"Hey". Recent posts about seats started me thinking about mine, and that led to bulkheads. For reference, I'm building Jay's Outer Island.

How flexible is mini-cell foam? I'd like the seat to be wider than the cockpit coaming, and I built hip braces with glassed wood strips that extend down from the deck a few inches (4, if memory serves me). Will I be able to flex the edges of the seat to get it through the coaming and under the braces, or am I going to need to install the seat before I join the deck and hull and do the seams?

Which leads me to bulkheads. I am going to install wood bulkheads as one of the nearly last steps... after the fore foot braces, for example. Clearly, I can detach the foot peg, but the rails themselves will be mounted using the "no hole through the hull" method, so I need to mount the rails before the seams. Again, am I going to potentially have trouble getting the bulkhead past the footbrace rails, or should it slip past them without a problem if I send it down there at a slight angle then square it up once past the rails? Seems like that would be fine, but I want to ask... just in case.

Thanks,

Rick