Mike,

I feel for you. This week I am doing the inside taping process on a 20' Razor Billed Auk that has no hatches! Trying to get the tape to wet out and lay smooth 10' from the cockpit was a major hassel. I ended up tacking the tape to the inside of the hull with a dab of hot melt glue every 6" prior to joining the hull and deck. Without this the tape would have been sliding and floping around. I used a 2" foam roller on the end of a long handle.

Getting the hull and deck to join was almost as bad. I glassed the hull 2 months before finishing the deck. The hull had spread 1-1/2" wider and had to be forced into submision with 9 ratchet clamps and 3 rolls of packing tape. I am a little worried that I will have problems later because the forces required to get them to align were great. I would hate to have the deck sudenly detach in the middle of an open ocean race.

The port side is taped now on to starboard.

Jack