Hello friends,
A month ago, I've purchased Firefly plans and start building soon and my strategy is to make the laminated coaming first. On the plans, the longitudinal dimension for the plywood coaming is 34" and it looked OK for my size (I'm 6' 1" and weigh around # 220), but couldn't be sure for the width to allow comfortable entry (or exit during a capsize) so I've thought to enlarge it slightly, increase the overall width by ~1 inch, which seemed feasible to me, but couldn't be sure with this extra width, coaming would interfere with other members of the frame or worse, would change handling of the boat.
You may see the difference between these two 34" versions here. Red line represents the original and green is the modified.
Then I've thought maybe the 36" version already has this feature, enabling bigger kayakers would enter and exit to cockpit more easily and decided to ask you, if should I modify the laminated coaming form as in the drawing or should I try to obtain 36" coaming plans and build that one?
Regards,
Powderpark