Glued decking on both sides of cabin sole

Today we glued the two deckings on both sides of the cabin. They will be walked on later when the boat is on the water.

We intend to add our hand rails by sliding them into a gap between our decking wood and our gunwales. Hence, when gluing of the decking we must at all cost prevent glue from getting onto the piece of exposed wood in the middle gap.

In order to achieve this we devised a simple trick. The decking was put in place ensuring that there was a proper gap where required. We put masking tape into the small gap and then made sure it was perfectly fitted to the curves of the boat. Then we cut it with a paper cutter and removed the decking.

The decking was glued to the sides of the boat onto the inwales. Then a fillet of glue and filler was added to the underside of the decking for extra strength.

Both decking added for the sides.