After glassing the hull and applying three thin fill coats of epoxy I removed the hull with the forms still attached from the strong back and suspended this in a couple of webbing slings.

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Removing the supports and the forms was followed by some cleanup of the hull interior using scrapers. Here's the bow section the right way up now. I haven't done any cleanup of the hull exterior yet other than remove some of the more egregious drips. I'll sand the hull and deck once they have been joined as per Rob's suggestions.

First pass cleanup of the hull, with pencil marks where the formers go.

After cleaning up the forms go back into the hull at the marked positions. They are secured with small dabs of hot glue.

For the deck design I decided to have a dark edge to the deck with some highlights. I originally planned some fancy curves using some of the poplar strips, but that's a hard wood to bend, and after a couple of experiments I found the work needed to trim the remaining strips to fit narrow angles just too time consuming and I realised that getting the boat ready to use this summer trumps obsessing over fancy detailing.

So I reverted to a more traditional design with a central king plank of poplar then I'll be filling the rest with darker WRC strips. Here's the progress so far.

Next steps are to complete the deck, then the tail section deck. The design notes originally suggested that the bow deck should be built as a separate part, but its quite possible to do the bow deck and main deck together which is much faster and I think adds a bit more strength to the front of the boat as well.

After that false start the deck went on fairly quickly. I didn't have enough strips of a single colour to do the deck so I decided to have some bands of contrasting colours. Heres a view from the stern.

and the rear and front decking nearly finished.

and finally the decking complete.

On the deck I used a technique from Rob Macks that Nick Schade also shows to use hot glue to keep the edges of the strips aligned while the wood glue sets. This is a lot quicker than taping the edges and seems to have worked quite well. I used a couple of sharp scrapers to cut the straps off and then sanded to deck with 60 grit using my ROS.

I'm really pleased with the strip joints and the general level of the hull. Next steps now are to fabricate the stern deck and more sanding.