If you are anything like me, the cove and bead will get abused. The edges of the cove will get beat up, the bead will get fiberglassed over, and the cove will get filled with epoxy.

With careful work you can leave the cove and bead on. I just don't like being that careful.

Also I like fitting the strips into the cove of previously installed strips as I build. You would need to put a cove on both edges of one of the strips inorder to make this possible.

: Not yet having placed my first strip (still cutting out the forms), I come at
: this issue with lack of experience. But as I read and re-read Nick's book,
: I find myself wondering why one must "cut the edge off ....the cove
: or the bead for this strip (sheer strip)." Seems to me, when one gets
: to the point of mating hull and deck, it would be beneficial to have a
: cove meet a bead for a tighter fit (this may require a sheer strip to have
: cove or bead on both sides since one changes direction of the cove when
: doing the deck, but that should not be a problem). It appears that mating
: deck and hull may just be the most difficult and least precise event in
: the entire building process. Can we not add precision by retaining the
: bead and cove fit between these to components? Please, tell me why not.
: Thanks Mark