Kevlar roving, (threads) are added to the canoe diagonally to add strength to the shell of the thing.   Very lightweight, but with tremendous tensile strength.   I can't break them.   They are glued at the gunwales with a hot melt glue tape.  This glue has enormous holding power in the plane of the tape, but surprisingly little strength if you pull away from that plane.  Being a hot melt adhesive, it is also easy to retighten a strand if it appears to have some slack.

Once the roving was on, it was time for the Dacron to be glued on with the same hot melt tape.   I was in new territory since I have no experience with gluing and shrinking the dacron to the shell, but with a little practice on scraps and a bit of caution with the ironing action and temperature setting, it all worked very well.

The next thing will be to paint the dacron with varnish which will waterproof it and actually glue it to the stringers.