Cockpit Coaming: Keyhole Shape

Bending a solid, properly shaped cockpit coaming is by far the most difficult part of building a skin boat. Feeling adventurous? We say go for it, but if you'd rather avoid the learning curve we can sell you one of ours. 

Our coamings start as raw Oregon White Oak logs at the Zena Forest Products sustainably harvested forest, zenaforest.com where we work together with the sawyer to cut and select out the very few boards that will make good bending stock. Next the rough boards are purchased and planed, and again, only a small amount of the best wood is selected to be cut into coamings. Next comes the careful process of steam bending thick stock to a very tight radius, and finally two coaming lips are nailed on with bronze ring nails, creating a solid 3/4" attachment for sea sock or spray skirt. The result is what we believe to be the best, strongest skin-on-frame kayak coamings built anywhere, and the only SOF keyhole cockpit you can really trust for both good knee bracing and the ability to reliably hold a spray skirt.

Coaming inside width is 16 1/2  inches. Order inside length based on pants inseam not actual inseam. Avoid the temptation to order a longer cockpit than you need because your knee bracing will suffer.  Custom lengths and widths available on request.