I agree with Jay that the lip may very well be strong enough without glass if it is laminated thin strips glued with epoxy, but I do not believe it is a "nightmare" to glass with bias cut strips. My layup is to glass the vertical strips both sides with 4 oz. bias cut strips with the outside layering onto the deck and the inside wrapped under the deck. With this in place, I then glue on my coaming lip and then glass again over the top of the lip and down the inside but do not try to wrap again under the deck nor under the lip. This may be overkill, but I am a commercial builder and warranty my work for up to two years. Better to have it built for any circumstances than to have someone send it back. And with boats going all over, the customer is not likely to send it back overseas or across country And the cost of a warranty repair by someone else with the bill being sent to me will cost me more than doing it overkill the first time. I have never had anything come back, but I think it best to make sure it does not.