My experience with sticking down the wood deck is always apply like Gorilla PVA glue too the back, if you don't the sticky glue on the deck will fail in time and the deck will always begin too lift from the surface applied too.
I was wondering if the adhesive they used for the wooden decking had gotten any better. I did a Graf Spee about 12 years ago and it's decking started coming lose after a couple of years.