Congratulations, Bill!! Tell us all about your new boat when you get a chance. The club has gained another member--Dirigo rules!

Here's another quirk I've dealt with over the past years--always had trouble with the sprayskirt not holding onto the cockpit coaming lip tightly enough. The coaming lip was just too narrow and didn't offer enough purchase, so I got some 4 mm plywood and cut 2 pieces approx. 7/8th inch wide and 20 inches long, curved to match the curvature of the sides of the coaming. These I epoxied right under the existing coaming lip., on either side of the cockpit. The sprayskirt always held tightly at the fore and aft ends of the cockpit--it was at the sides that it always wanted to pop off. The two added strips widened the coaming perfectly and the sprayskirt now holds securely. I have a Snapdragon, with nylon tunnel and neoprene deck. Maybe later versions of the boat corrected this problem, but that's how I fixed mine.