The cockpit reinforcement panels glued on nicely. They weren't cut exactly right so some of the reinforcement hung over the deck panel on a couple of them. But that was no big deal because we had to bevel the reinforcement panels on the edges anyway, which we did with our handy 4 in 1 rasp/file. We got the sides to as much of a 45 degree angle as we could.
Then we brought our project off the floor and onto tables! A very exciting moment. We clamped panels 4 and 5 (the outside deck panel and the top hull panel) to the table and used a plane, wood rasp and sand paper to bevel the entire edge of the panels where they would meet and create the shear seam (the seam where the deck meets the hull). We bevelled through the inside two plies of the plywood at a 45 degree angle (well as close as we could get to one).
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