Hello!
To start with, I didn't use bead and cove strips - I hand planed each strip to an approximate fit. This fit is more approximate on the inside than the outside!

I decided that if I left the gaps I might have structural problems and so I mixed up some epoxy/wood flour and started coating the inside of the hull with it (using a squeegee so that it mostly just fills in the cracks). Well... some of the cracks go all the way through and so a bit of the epoxy mix seeps out and, frankly, it's much darker than the wood strips.

Now, I could use micro-balloons to adjust my color, but the CLC resin FAQ (no, I'm not making a S&G, but I am using MAS resin and so are they so it fits, really!) says not to use micro-balloons as structural elements! As I understand it, what I'm doing will be structural, so those micro-balloons are no good.

Right. So, well, maybe I'll start a new style! I'll call it, um, dark cracks on a light boat! Ah, heck, I know that it can't be perfect (especially now that I messed up a little on the curves on the deck!)... Hmm...

Ok! I'll just finish doing the hull like I've started it but when I do the same thing for the deck, I'll use the micro-balloons because, 1: The deck shows more and, 2: It won't have to be as structural.

How does that sound? Am I being somewhat reasonable?

Cheers!
charles