Russ

Wooden kayak building is not a perfect science; it's a matter of making many adjustments during the entire building process. It sounds like to me that you have a reasonable built set of forms.

Put the forms on the strongback. Align them, and then tack on some strips (string can also be used) to the forms at the sheer, keelline and a few spaced around to see the shape of the kayak. Sight down the strips to see if the curves they form is fair. (No hills and valleys along the curve) Adjust the positions of the forms to remove the hills and valleys from the curves. You may possibly even have to add and/or remove material from some portions of the forms to achieve a fair curve.

Bobby