Finally. Got main deck fitted and glued down - via extending the bulkhead slots.
It wss still very 'sticky' to persuade the deck to move into place. That seemed mainly; the bulkheads/ribs are locked in place by 5mm lower deck but need manipulation to allow the main deck to slide down. Hind sight for me but I would suggest to anyone coming behind, ignore instructions to glue the bulkheads to keel & lower deck until you have gotten the main deck in place - then have the fun of gluing everything in limited space!!
Also I found that the main deck very easily bent around the shallow camber beams so maybe splitting the main deck into two longitudinally could work...
the main deck is 0.8mm 3-ply and I'm sure it has been compressed under an old fashioned steam roller, or maybe Terminated under a large hydraulic press - I found it very hard to cut!!
I have the foredeckportion planked. Wondering why, a bulkhead gets placed behind the planking, another deck above and ship planking around the sides, so it will be interesting to see how this deck planking will be seen!
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