: To add a little more to what Ian wrote:

: Once the deck and hull are completed, you tape them together with
: fiberglass packing tape and you tape the inside seams. You can
: avoid taping the extreme ends so you can pry them open and put
: in some thickened epoxy and then re-tape them together so the
: deck and hull and bonded well on the ends.

Hi Jay,

To avoid taping the extreme ends is why I use partial sheer strips at the ends, just epoxy the decks down to them, then tape the outside, works fine and is a heck of alot easier than trying to glass areas I can't reach.

Bill H.