I just check the instructions -- yep, 2" 6-oz. tape only between the deck reinforcement plates fore and aft of the cockpit. Only a fillet of thickened epoxy on the rest of the inner shear. The instructions are probably different for different models -- this was for the Tern.

Dean

: Dean, do the directions really say tape is only needed around the cockpit? so
: only a butted thin fillet on the inside and 6oz. glassed outside is what
: is securing the hull and deck? When I made a Pygmy 13 4 yrs ago the
: directions said two layers of 9oz tape on the inside.