: Hi Jeff
: okay you have a base plate for the coaming that sits on the forms fore and
: aft of the cockpit space. The skin passes over that baseplate. You staple
: the skin to the baseplate. Once you have the skin stapled onto the
: baseplate you can cut out the middle of the skin to make the cockpit
: space, you can do this later as well if you use the dowel technique. Then
: you have your stacked riser and coaming lip. Drill some holes , you can
: either come down through the lip and riser and through the baseplate or
: you can come up through the baseplate into the riser. For the first method
: I put 8 thin dowels down for the permanent fixation of the riser to the
: base plate, the other way you use some screws. I have done both, the
: dowels are easier. I used a thin bead of silicone between the skin and the
: riser to stop leakage.
: I have also taken the coaming off one that had been screwed in about 18
: months after original assembly, not a fun job hence my use of dowels the
: next time round.
: hope this makes sense
: cheers
: David

Hmm..dowels would make finishing a whole lot easier too. Trying to get all those screws flush isn't fun, good idea

Bill H.