Hi all,

I am about ready to turn my haul over and start building my deck. I am going to dowell them together so I can fair it all together before I do any glassing. Has anyone tried this? The first deck strip I lay on my haul shear strip would be doweled at intervels using either wood or welders bronze rods cut for my dowels.The dowels would be ground to a point with about 1/8" of full dowell dia. for seating in the dowel hole. This should allow easy perfect mating of the two halfs later on and they could be glued into place and it could be glassed without any strip glassing over the deck-haul seam, but simply overlaped with the haul glassing and the deck glassing. That would give you a double glassing of a seam that was already glued in the mating. There would be no reason to do any trimming on the main cloths. I have read on the board that usually some warping takes place and the two halves sometimes don't match up. It looks like the dowelling would take care of this as they should lock back into place. The first dowelled deck strip would be nailed at intervals with small brads to hold it firmly to the haul shear strip. When both haul and deck are sanded and faired, then seperated, the brads would be pulled through the strip with pliers. I hope this makes sence. When I read something like this, my eyes glaze over.

John