A little background:

I'm building the Guillemot design of Nick's on a built 2X4, constructed, strongback. I used the center spreader wedges while anchoring each end with screws into the strongback. To tighten up the stations, I screwed back into each spacer in a couple of spots. I'm doing the fiberglass later this spring, so after finishing the hull, I freed it from the forms. The stems didn't release too well though I could see that there wasn't much attachment. I also put screws into each spacer. The reason I used screws was that the stations seemed to have too much rotation (slop between my pattern cutout and 2X4 strongback).

With the hull flipped and released, I re-aligned the forms to marks inside the hull and hot melt tacked the hull on each shear line. If I continue to build the deck as intended, I wouldn't have access to the screws in the spacers. I can predict the problem will be 1) releasing the hull again with hot melt along the shear (won't have access mid bow and stern deck 2) won't have any access to screws put in from the deck side into the spacers. If anyone can add some order to this, I would appreciate the comments. The last thing I want to do is destroy the couple of months of work with a bad decision on fixturing.

Phil