The next step will show you, briefly, what your boat may look like at a much later time. Assemble the deck to the hull with wire. Get a pair of 2 X 4's to sit across the top of the hull, around 1/3 from the front and rear and lay the deck on top. This will give you a gap between the two boat halves and enable you to start all the wires ahead of time.
This is an important step. Take your time tightening and loosening wires until to have the entire boat in the shape you want it, taking out all twists and misalignments, even if it means drilling a few more holes here and there to accomplish your mission of having a perfectly shaped hull. Some of the copper wires, from repeated use, will break. In places where I do a lot of adjusting or use a lot of tension, I have some tougher bailing type wire on hand, only slightly larger in diameter than the copper wire provided in the kit.
Got it? Great! Now cut all the wires between the deck and hull and take the deck off and put it aside, upside down, very carefully. Yes, the pieces will move a little but once you have it aligned (you did), it will go back later. You will see how shortly. You will assemble and disassemble the two halves more than once.
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