I didn't glass the outside of Sassa and the boat has survived some pretty spectacular blowoffs and visits to the shore....



Build the boat straight and light, make sure the bottom is true and you will have a nice handling, fun boat.
Drove mine with both a G23 and a modded 260, a stock 231 or 260 should be a good match to the hull.
When building I set the depth of the overhang as I built and did no prepwork prior to filling the cavity, I used small nails to hold the sides in place and then applied pressure.
During the many builds that have taken place we have discussed not having the overhang at the bow some believing that it acts as a small sail lifting the bow at speed and helping the blow offs. You may like to remove the overhang on the bow third of the hull, I don't believe it will be badly affect the handling of the hull and may well improve it somewhat.
Sassa is now 2 years old and in relatively good shape despite a lot of use apart from a split seam (now mended) from falling onto a concrete floor from about 1,2m [:@]