My son Deek was here for Christmas and was eager to lend a hand. He hesitated when I handed him the drill and told him to make some holes for stitches, but I assured him he had a great teacher. He drilled away. We separated the stitched hull from the deck then got to tweaking to eliminate even the smallest of gaps between panels. Then the joints were tacked between stitches with thickened epoxy. Before the epoxy is set, the deck and hull were rejoined and restitched together. It went very smoothly have Deek working one side and me the other at the same time. Once alignment was verified the stitches were tightened. Had to ensure that we DID NOT glue the halves together. We were super fussy about alignment since once the epoxy is set there is no going back. Now we just let the epoxy harden. Will be taking a break over the holidays so this is a great stopping point.
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