: I think most people prefer to glass the deck first, that's how I've
: done all my boats. For me it would be more than I could handle
: to get the deck glassed nicely while at the same time dealing
: with the details of the coaming sticking up in the middle of
: everything.

: Ric
+1
I just 'changed' a stacked wood coaming, replacing with a 'glass/carbon one on one of my strip kayaks.
It would have been much more difficult if the deck didn't have a good layer of glass on both sides.