Yours was one of the ones I looked at quite closely. Nicely done! I like the way it angles upward, away from the deck. It makes it easier to put the skirt over the lip.

It sounds like mine is fine as is. Can you pick your boat up by the skirt?

I'm not really thinking of glass over the top of it. It certainly doesnt need it structurally, being 3/8" thick where yours is 3/16". Possibly for abrasion, but if it gets beat up in two years I'll glass it then. Even a belt sander has a slow time cutting through all those lamination joints. Lots of room to sand out gouges :) I want this thing in the water!

: Hi Don,

: The lip on my Guillemot is about 3/16" x 3/4". Nothing is going to
: come off accidentally.

: It depends more on the type of sprayskirt you are using. Look at commercial
: boats. The big neoprene, rubber randed sprayskirts are necessary to stay
: on the big fat radiused coamings of plastic sea kayaks and rodeo boats.
: The really slim, vacuum-bagged coamings found on glass and kevlar boats
: hold a nylon/bungeed sprayskirt well.

: If you put a nylon/bungeed sprayskirt on that plastic, radiused coaming, it's
: probably gonna pop off. If you use the neoprene skirt on a deep, sharp
: coaming, it's never gonna come off (make sure you can get it off when it
: really counts!)

: While most of our wooden coamings fit somewhere in between these two
: extremes, I wanted to use them to illustrate the point.

: If your current sprayskirt is not coming off of your current coaming, even
: when you have a wave wash over the deck, don't worry about it--just go
: paddling. If you start seeking bigger water and have bigger waves, you
: might need a beefier connection.

: Shawn