End pour location?

In the end, I know.

However, all photographs I've seen of end pours done made holding the kayak up, do hold the kayak vertical, but you can see in the photograph below that we didn't.

Our thinking was that besides providing something solid to drill a hole in for the toggle handles the end pour should reinforce the bow and the stern down to the keel as protection from a sharp blow.

I invite a review of my logic as next month I'll be building a new boat.

The pour method we used likely caused us to us more epoxy, so that added to the weight of our boats, by several ounces.