Amazing. I don't understand the language, but from the pictures I understand that you glued and fillited the lower panels and all the bulkheads and floor joists (and put in the floor boards) before attaching the side panels. Is that a departure from the manual or did I misread it? Did you have any trouble making the side panels and lower panels conform to each other after having already glued the lower panels?
I hope I did misread the manual because it will be very little trouble to take the side panels back off. I climbed in and out and in and out of the boat getting the floor joists wired and it was a very wearisome job. I have been dreading trying to do the glueing and filliting with those side panels in the way, not to mention the strain I will be putting on the stitches. One worry I have is getting bulkheads one and two aligned properly because they extend above the side panels.
I hope others will weigh in on this. Did I misunderstand the manual? If not, is getting all the glueing, filliting, etc., etc., done a better way to go? Any downsides?