: I would like to know how others here make their coaming lips. Right now I
: have the vertical pieces of the coaming installed (the way Nick did in his
: book). Should I now bend ash strips to make the lip or wait until after I
: have glassed the deck up over the vertical pieces? The illustration in
: Nick’s book sort of looks like he bent the ash around the coaming after
: there was a layer of glass (maybe what looks like glass is epoxy in the
: drawing).

: I plan on using either glass or thickened epoxy to make fillets.

: Just wondering what others here have used.

: Thanks

Glass the deck over the strips first. Just hotgluing the strips to the deck doesn't give them enough strength for the bending of the coaming rim pieces.

Pete czerpak
albany, NY