We did this last week. We tried a few tricks for this I learned at the Woodenboat school in Maine a couple of years ago but ended up just measuring across with a tape measure and shaving the bevels to fit. The seats are more of the marine ply and the risers and knees are solid mahogany. We got a bit creative with the clamping; using some heavy hardware from Shemara's mast to get downward pressure, and clamping bits of wood here and there on finished bits and giving the end a bang with a mallet so it budged up tight against the bit getting glued and screwed horizontally. You can see that in the pictures where we clamped a bit of Fiji Kauri to the centre seat, and banged the end of the wood so it put some pressure on the end seats against the planking. This helped get a tight fit
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