brass protective strip

The last job to do before turning the hull over was to attach the brass strips to the bottom of the hull to protect from abrasion. I bought 19mm half-oval brass strip at great expense and the cringed at the thought of putting holes in my hull to screw it on. I talked to a few people who recommended an adhesive called fixtech 190 that would be better than screws, which I believed, but I still needed some way to hold the strips down while the glue cured.
So, in the end, I bit the bullet and used screws through the brass to hold it in place and used fixtech 190 as a glue/bedding compound (it is very flexible stuff).
I wanted to have no plywood, especially end grain, exposed to the elements so i did it this way. I drilled and counter sunk all my holes in to the brass strip (400mm apart). I then used self-tapping screws to attach the strips to the boat. I removed all the screws and the strips. I then drilled 10mm holes using the hole left by the screw as a guide. these holes were went in approximately 12mm into the 16mm plywood of the sole.

 I then mixed some bote-cote epoxy with TPRDA and used a pipette to fill each hole and allowed the stuff to soak into the grain then I sucked the excess out. I then filled the hole with silica-thickened epoxy

 and before it was fully hard, cut it flush and drilled holes about 10mm deep in their centres. These were then used to attach the brass strip using silicon bronze wood screws and fixtech 190.
A tedious process but I feel secure knowing that there's no plywood exposed at all.