The first step is to get the deck situated on the hull correctly and apply a crap ton of strapping tape to make sure stays put and that the shear seams have as little of a gap as possible. The manual says that you can drill more holes and add more wires where necessary, but we just used a bunch of strapping tape and it worked fine. Then you tilt it up on it's shear seam and using a syringe just like the other seams squeeze out a bead of epoxy across the entire seam. Let that harden. Then flip it over and do the other side. The way it is described in the manual it sounds like they say to just put epoxy in the shear seam all in one step and that it isn't necessary to tilt the boat and do it in two steps. I just felt better doing it this way, it seemed more sure that the epoxy would get in all of the seam.
Once both sides are hardened and the tape is removed it is time to add the wood flour thickened epoxy where there are gaps in the seam.
Once all the gaps are filled and the seam looks nice and stuck together then I sanded the whole deck and rounded all the seams (especially the shear seam) in preparation for glassing.
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