Rick,
I'll ditto everything Daren is saying. with one addition. When you first look at that combing design you may think its the weakest link in the boat. ( I sure did) All those little scraps of wood..... Hot glue.... I was pretty skeptical. However, after its under glasss, its actually one of the strongest parts of the boat.

Changing the dimensions a little won't impact the over all strength very much.

I did a whole lot of alteration on my combing. widdening the back. Lengthening it a bit. I gave it an inch for a wall. Skinnying up the front. I made it so my combing walls aren't even straight up and down. I made the front lay over sharply. I did this by building up two and in some spots 3 layers of strips in those places and then with a Japenese rasp sanded in the incline. For all of that monkeying its still pretty bomb proof. Yours will be too.

Ah well I'm off to paddle Cape Nedic Light tommorrow. guess I had better Monkey on my cockpit covers and moving my roof rack over. Good luck

!RUSS

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