Everest (or Burn) Cockpit Trimming Question

[Marc Evans]

I would appreciate some advice from the Everest (or Burn) conversion owners. I've done some trimming on the cockpit but am wondering if people are trimming the areas where the cockpit rim is molded to the body of the boat (see the areas circled on the photo). Just wondering if cutting out these attachment points unduly weakens the rim.

Marc

[Smurfwarrior]

I left those areas along and just cut out the thigh brace tabs. I'd leave the rim as intact as possible.

[griffen_williams]

The Karnali that i bought from Bernie, has the rim trimmed right by the hip all the way to the thigh brace bolt holes. The rim still feels as bomber there as where the rim is intact.

[cheajack]

Done an H3 and a Karnali and I trimmed the thigh brace attachments and left the areas you circled alone. What Smurf said.

[Marc Evans]

Thanks Smurf, Cheatjack and Griffin Williams:

I put in a better photo to make it easier to see what I am referring to in my message.

My problem is that the area of the front circle is up against my hip and is somewhat uncomfortable. I'm thinking that if Bernie removes it, then then I'm okay with going that far. I will probably not remove the area of the left hand circle.

Larry Horne, you're the Burn master, how much do you take off?

By the way, how far from the front side of the back rim are you folks setting the back of your saddle?

Thanks for the help.

Marc

[cheajack]

Regarding the area of interest in your photo, I would shave it down gradually with a sureform rasp until it no longer rubs you. I added hip grabbers padded with minicel foam and it keeps me from hitting the rim. The seat set back in both the Karnali and H3 I did is 9" from the back edge of the cockpit rim to the front edge of the saddle back rest. I started at 8" in the Karnali and moved it forward on Larry's suggestion and like it much better. When I converted the H3 I just put the saddle at 9".

[Smurfwarrior]

I'm at 10" in my Everest.

[Larry Horne]

Mine has foam wrapped around it and I don't recall what i did.
i may have filed it smooth with a rasp. I don't think you'll hurt anything by removing some of that extra stuff.

[Marc Evans]

Thank you all for your input. I took the micro-plane to the next couple of inches of the rim edge and will test the boat out tomorrow.

Jeff, my seat is currently at 8 inches from the inside rear edge of the rim to the seat back and seems okay. I don't think that I need to go forward too much more, of course that maybe because I'm all legs.

I'll let you all know what I think of the boat after I have had it on some moving water. On flat water the Everest is fast (for an 8 and one-half foot boat) and very stable.

Marc

[AJ]

Marc,

I hate how Pyranha did that did that cockpit combing, those notches and the dramatic drop from front to back. It is about the only thing I don't like about the boat. I filed and sanded out above my thighs and the back/sideback to make more room for my feet. I filed as deep as i could without compromising those notches. I also used those holes up front below the cockpit to hang my thigh straps. Here is a picture of how much I took off my Burn, when I was working on it.

[Silent Bob]

Those are some plush looking kneepads...

[AJ]

Silent Bob,

That isn't the finished product, that was just the start of a work in process. I better put up the final pic, cause it plush!

[Silent Bob]

I was referring to the fur lined ones in the second pic.

[AJ]

Awe, that is Gizmo, my C1 enginering consultant! She loves C1s!

[busterblue]

i can haz weldwood?