And to finish up this round of entries, here is a overall view (with the red kayak carrier, behind the boat, I picked up last weekend). Next step is to sand the deck, fiberglass it and start on the cockpit finishing (combing, hip braces, backrest, footpegs). After all that I think I will try to get her wet before adding the deck hatches and varnish. 

And a shot of the recessed combing. 

Here is a shot of how my stern deck shear strips met up for Mr. Ruderman 

So, I epoxied the ouside shear seam after the inside and got the bow and stern tips sealed up. 

I did not "tack" epoxy the outside shear seam before doing the inside and the result was that the bow and stern tips were not sealed after gluing the inside. The 6 foot pole with the syringe taped to it was not precise enough to get all the way back there. 

Here is what one of the better parts of the inside sheer seem looks like after gluing the deck onto the hull. 

What did end up working was laying a line as best I could then used the syring itself to smooth out the epoxy. In this picture you can see the epoxy on the bottom center seam. I will wait to tape the seam after I cut the hatches out. Then I will be able to reach more of the seam. 

So now it is time to glue the deck on.... man is it hard to see what you are doing in there. Lighting was not an issue with the shop light I used that is on the floor under the boat, but the 6 foot pole that I attached the epoxy syringe to, got in the way. 

So I finaly got a chance to tape the deck onto the hull. A little extra time and using a box knife like a crowbar, to pull the hull out in spots, took a while but looks good. 

After the masking tape is removed the next morning, I think it turned out pretty good. It is not perfect, but I think a little touch up work and a fill coat in the cockpit area will do it wonders. 

But here is a situation. I had a HUGE portion of excess glass. It took me hours before I planned this recovery. What I did was use a Ziplock bag to press down the fold of glass. It is hard to see here, but in the middle of the Ziplock bag from left to right, on the far side of the boat is the fold. 

Well looks ok.... 

Looks ok before I wet it 

After saturation coat and before laying fiberglass 

After removing the temp hull frames and before saturation coat 

So shiny 

And after 

Before taping the underside of the deck 

Question: Holy crap batman, can you put more epoxy on there? You know you have to sand it all back down right? Answer: Random Orbital Sander (except for the recessed deck area, where I will use a mouse sander).... I hope. I pray. 

After I expoxied the seam I went back and filled them with thicken'ed epoxy.... and got a little out of hand. 

The deck is all wired up and taped to the hull, time to epoxy the seams 

...and the stern. The bow was where I started when lining the panels up together and it turn out nearly perfect, the stern was surprisingly close too. Thanks again Pygmy. 

Wired up the bow and taped the whole deck to the hull. 

Ok, so I finaly put in the recessed deck plate. It looks harder than it is.