Oru Kayak Seam Channel Repair

My sister and I have the original Bay St Oru kayaks.  The piece that attaches the seam channel to the hull snapped on my sister's kayak last summer.  I can see mine is starting to wear in the same spot.  She contacted Oru several times, but was unable to get a replacement part (she offered to pay for it, but was still unable to obtain the piece).  The hull wouldn't shut properly.

Luckily she had a friend with a 3D printer that made the missing part... or at least part of the part.  He printed out a few pieces.

We unscrewed the broken pieces, then scored the larger piece to fit with the new printed piece (near the red arrow).  The original plastic piece was fairly easy to cut with a utility knife.

We screwed the original piece with two screws.  The new piece also has two screw holes to attach it to the hull.  We needed one new screw to do that (although I bet it could have been attached with just the single original screw).  The original outer seam channel then screwed onto the base on the hull.  You can see the patched section with the different colors.  

We gave it a test drive (paddle?) and it worked great.  We're all a little unsure how well the new piece will wear.  I'll update this with how well it does over the summer.

The repair pieces were printed tall with PLA+ filament, overextruded a little, and hot and slow to get as much layer adhesion as possible.

We were given two files - which I have linked.  The FCStd file is the "source" file, made in FreeCAD.  The .stl is used to print.  Any person with a printer should be able to take the .stl to make a part.  

If you need this repair and give it a try, I would love to know how it worked out for you.