: Thank you for the posts. I guess what I was asking which method for
: make the cockpit is easiest, all glass or carbon, wooden riser
: and then some type of lip or plywood stack.

Well, really, easiest is the plywood stack - make your own if you don't want CLC's. It's just kind of wasteful of wood.

Or you can easily bend - with steam (or even just by soaking) - a strip of wood for your coaming, then add a lip, bending it the same way and fastening with glue and nails/pegs/whatever. This is pretty darn simple, but you need the right wood and a form to bend it to shape.

About 17-18" wide, at the hips, by about 30 - 31" long fits many standard skirts. That's outside diameter, and pretty approximate.

Good luck!
Dave Gentry

Here's a pic of a plywood stack coaming I made for one of my old boats. Worked great with my bum knee, and still gave good thigh support for rolling. I round over the inside edges, with my router, when I build these now.