I've been spending some time finishing the hull. Here are some pictures of progress.

Getting close to the final strips. I've been using some ideas from Rob macks where I hot glue small strips across the joints to make sure the thin strips stay aligned between the forms.

This side of the hull all finished up. The final strips were really thin and I ended up doing it a couple of times.

I used a variety of scrapers to get rid of glue, some of the unevenness and then sanded using 60 grit on my new DeWalt random orbital sander. Here I've wetted the surface to raise the grain and to get a first look at how the colours have worked out.

As usual there are some small gaps that appear after sanding where I'd over beveled, so I've used an idea from Howard Spira on the CLC forum where he masks the gap, applies some PVA glue, lets it set for a while, then after removing the tape sands across the gap which fills with the sanding dust. Very effective as seen here. First one of the gaps.

Taped and some PVA glue applied with a syringe

and after sanding, almost invisible.

Now I'm waiting for a long board sander with a dust extraction feature and some long sanding sheets.

Sanding details and start of the glass layup in Part 3