The deck comes in two pieces and is nailed and epoxied to the hull. Above you can see Luke laying the deck panels on the hull.
Then using a nailing guide we hammered in ring nails every 3 inches. Ring nails have ridges around the shaft of the nail that help them hold. Even though there are nails every 3 inches we still needed tie down straps to help hold deck in the correct shape and ensure that the deck was held tight to the shear clamps during the 24 hours that it takes the epoxy to cure.
Once all the straps were on we turned the boat over to allow gravity to help us keep the epoxy where we want it.
After the epoxy cured we turned the boat over and using a Japanese Saw (cuts on the pull not on the push)trimmed the excess deck off.
Looing Good!
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