Someone else can speak to going aloft because I never have, but rails on the cockpit coaming sounds like an aftermarket addition by the fdo. Are these real hand-hold kinds of rails? You're not talking about track for lead cars--you're talking about hand-hold rails? t   Tom Smith and Jane Van Winkle M15--345  Chukar M17--064  Unnamed mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats