i've done strip builts and you are asking good questions....here is my perspective on them:

-- i would release the forms from the hull before stripping the deck.  this does not have to take a long time and i would immediately replace the form on the hulls.  my rationale is that if i am going to have any trouble getting it to release from the forms, i am in a much better place to deal with it before doubling down with a deck that may also be stuck.  whatever i learn in terms of difficulty getting the hull to release can potentially be applied/corrected prior to the starting to strip the deck.

-- tips for releasing the hull.  the most important tip is that the forms should have been taped with packing tape or other easy release tape so that the strips don't stick.  that said, you may have to jiggle/joggle it a bit if you have a lot of excess glue between the strips that have fallen to the forms.  i used an exacto blade to kind of go around all the forms before working the forms off to eliminate as much glue as possible.  if you accidently actually glued the wood to the form.....that is a bigger problem and really depends where the problem occurred with respect to how you will address it.  if its in the center of the boat, for example, its usually pretty easy to carefully slide a knife blade between the form and the strips and easily break them apart without damaging anything.  the ends, are typically trickier becasue of access.

--  glassing.   i try to keep the hull and deck on the forms at all times until they are glassed inside and out.   i usead a sheet of plastic from the home depot to keep my halfs from accidently glueing to one another.  when i glassed the hull and deck, the other half was still on the form.   when i removed a half to glass the inside, as soon as it cured i put it back on the forms until it was hardened completely (several days later).  i used bungees to keep everything tight on the forms at all times.  this way, when i had to actually mate the two halves, there was very little work to get them to mate up properly.

hope that helps

howard

Thanks, Howard. That's the info I was looking for.

Terry, 

one last tip with respect to releasing from the forms.  

when i built my strongback/forms.  i used bolts/screws that basically allowed me to 'release' any single form from the strongback other than the end pieces. (basically i screwed a wood block behind every form into the strongback and screwed the form to the wood block...so if i took the screws out of the block/strongback connection, the form could now slide/was released from the strongback)

when i had a particular issue of sticking, to the extent it was not on the end, i could release the form from the strongback and tap it forward or backward with a hammer to break the form away from the hull.

h  

   Thanks again, Howard. I too screwed the forms to the strongback as you describe. I think all the forms except the end should be a piece of cake. I'm a bit concerned about the ends, but I'll see how it goes when I get there. Hopefully that will be this weekend.