S & G or Stripper?

When S & G boats first started, designers taped them like tanks. The current trend with S & G is to use the fillets and tape on the inside and totally glass the outside hull. The Deck is usually put on with a shear strip (wood) and the shear joint is often glassed with a very light cloth tape (3 oz) just to cover and protect the end grain of the deck. (tape usually self cut out of cloth on a bias)

Even on strippers, more and more builders are using self cut light cloth tape on the outside and avoiding all that nonsense that you're concerned with.

Tape always goes over the overall glass layer on the outside. That big heavy nine oz. finished edge cloth tape is rairly used on the outside anymore. It's just not needed.