Then Pat really went to town. Knowing he was going to sail this boat hard (Pat was a Hobie racer in his younger days) he made the ends of the boat into floatation tanks and decked over the hull.

The coaming you see under those clamps is a thing of beauty unto itself - not only does it follow the tight curve of the cockpit, it is also flared. I can barely cut a straight line, compound curves baffle me.