> 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've almost always stripped the whole boat before glassing anything. If you are working very slowly, there may be some advantage to sealling the hull in glass to keep it from distorting. But, as long as you are completing the stripping within one year, I wouldn't worry about it.