So I've got a little problem, at least I hope it's little. I mentioned in a previous post that my hull pulled in a little and my deck spread a little before applying fiberglass. I taped the halves together last night and was able to get almost all of it aligned until I made it to the bow and stern. The deck is too stiff to pull in more than 1/16" or so. I can put spreaders in the hull but I wasn't able to get it far enough and I can't reach far enough through the hatches to make adjustments to the spreaders.

At the bow I think I can get the halves aligned to within about 6" of end. At the stern, I don't think I'll be able to get them aligned any closer than about 18" from the end.

I've seen some posts advising putting black plastic over the boat in the sun to heat it up. Does that add much flexibility?

I'm thinking I may have to get as much aligned as possible, seam the inside, then cut off both ends and add a new stem to both ends. I need to do a few inches anyway because I didn't get the strips lined up very well at the tips. But I hate the thought of cutting off a foot or more.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Aaron