This will work excellently. Instead of using yellow glue, Id use slow cure doookie schmutz. And, when you glass the inside seam, use shorter strips of bias-cut about 24" long, and let the first side cure green before turning the hull. I had a problem in mine trying to do both sides. When I turned the still-wet side up to do the other, the tape fell away. I had to grind it out and use the above short-strip method. It would've been easier to do it that way the first time.

BTW, my alignment was similar; I used full-width pcs of 3/4 x 1/4 strip, cut to fit the inside profile of the joint and held in by friction of spreading the hull. Make them to match each station. The tape outside held it all together while spots of schmutz cured in the joint. Then I filleted where needed and glassed the outside. Then removed the spacers and did the inside. It was easy.

: Hi all,

: I think I have figured out how to align the deck and haul in a very simple
: way. No drilling, dowelling and worring about being perpendictular in
: alignment. In the blurry picture you see two pieces of 1/4 x 3/4 inch
: strips representing the shear line seperating the haul and the deck. On
: the inside or outside of the deck/haul, I glued two scrap pieces of strips
: with a appro. 45 Degree bevell fastened so they are close to but not above
: each other. When the two halves of the boat are put together the bevels
: guide the two halves into alignment. In my case, I believe I can glass the
: inside first, then hot glue as many blocks as I want to the inside glass
: haul and deck to align them,and then yellow glue the haul to the deck.
: Then when I am done with the outside I will craw inside and knock off the
: blocks with a hammer, clean off the hot glue and strip glass the inside
: seam. Tell me what you think is wrong with this.

: John