Hello, folks. My Outer Island forms are all on now. A few are slightly off alignment, by maybe a 16th inch or so. If you look down the keel line it looks great, but if you really start investigating, you canspot the few that have an ever so slight variation. Couple questions.

Do I try to adjust them now, or wait until I put the first strip on, then see if I'm satisfied with the fairness of the curve? If I leave them ever so slightly out of alignment, won't the process of applying some pressure to the forms with the strips, the wood thickness, the fairing and sanding, the epoxy, fiberglass and varnish all contribute to making the slightness of the misalignment irrelevant?

The reason I ask, is that I have heard several times, including in Nick's book, that I shouldn't be sweating the small stuff - just forge ahead and get the boat built. Many of the forms are exact - it's just a few that are ever so slightly off. So, knowing that the forms are the foundation, how much difference will it really make in the end?