: Thanks Bill for your concern.
: No problems here tho'. The underside of the curved cockpit floor
: timbers is 2 mm above a fore and aft straight edge line from the
: "Yost" cut-aways between Frame 2 and Frame 3.
: Further, they are 15mm above an athwart ship straight edge from
: chine stringer to keel stringer [where Tom Y. suggests/requires
: 1/2" i.e. 12 mm in 'real money'].

Marin, thanks for the suggestion. I'm trying to avoid steam bending (no equipment, no expertise), but your approach sparked an idea: using some extra nylon skin material to make a sling that would stretch from stringer to stringer. Sort of a mini hammock for your feet. This would be a low weight, low tech solution to avoid having one's heels stretch the outer skin.

I'll be trying this on the next boat (too late for the one I'm working on right now).

Eric