> It seems that everything I read about building and glassing a strip kayak,
> says to glass the hull and then procede to building the deck. I am in the
> process of building a Georgian Bay kayak and have just completed stripping
> the hull. I want to just flip the boat over and start on the deck. Once
> the deck is stripped I figured on sanding everything at once and then
> glassing the hull and deck one at a time and then joining them. Am I
> missing something? Why doesn't anyone do it this way. CHRIS HOWIE

I built my deck before glassing the hull. I tried to use wax paper between the hull and deck when I glassed but the wax paper kept lifting the fiberglass away at the shear line. I would recommend seperating them before glassing.