: It appears - to me - that the keel kind of
: "flares" off toward the Stern end of the boat. Some tell me that
: since the lines are straight (and they are) this will not affect the
: performance. I can see it and it bugs me, so I was wondering if anyone had
: techniques for "straightening this out."

Sometimes our eyes fool us into seeing deviations that aren't there.
First make sure it's in fact NOT straight. Put the boat, keel up across your building supports. Attach a piece of wood to the bow with a clamp so that a length of string (attached to the piece of wood)is centered over the keel at the bow water-line. Run the string aft to the stern, just above the keel. Holding it taut, you will have a straight line frame of reference against which you can evaluate the keel line. That should tell you if you've any deviation on your keel line, and if so, how much.

Jim