: I sat it down on the floor the other day and tried to slip in. I found
: without a coaming it's a real tight squeeze. My knee caps get caught on
: the masik and my heels on the ribs. But, with a lot of wiggling I got in
: and more important got out.

Wolfgang Brink makes a good point in his book about this subject. You will definately want to try the wiggle with full paddling clothes on! He says in the book (Aleutian Kayak) that he built a boat which he could get into with bare knees, but which prevented him from getting out (except very slowly) with his dry suit on. He ended up doing surgery on the Masik to make sure he was not underwater trying to slowly do a wiggle-wiggle.

Here on the Kayak Forum, Safety is Job 1.

Rick