comfort coamings

[ebb]

Wondering if there is a good case for taller coamings. One of the pics in the Manual seems to show that and also a pretty curve to the top. 338's - I have to assume were original - are barely 7" off the deck at the cabin with a straight chalk-line run to 3".

The drawing in the Manual seems to show a coaming about twice as high as those I have taken off the boat. Looks to me the coaming would measure out at roughly 13" to 5" At that height they would have had to cut the coamings from 16" wide mahogany. While possible, doesn't seem likely.
338's were cut from 11 1/2" stock - like hardware store stock.

If the drawing is Alberg's and not a tracer's with a fat pen, then maybe we got snookered in the original outfitting of the Ariel. But then maybe some folks have taller and deeper coamings. Anybody know? I want to put back what the drawing shows.

Those versatile hiker's chairs are definitely a way to go for back support when sitting sideways in the cockpit - if you want comfort while at the tiller. Recent regatta experience suggests that tiller work is all abs and thighs.

Close hauled, and the crew braced across cockpit, the nearly vertical coamings are imco at exactly the right height to dig into the small of the back.