Well I got the gunnels bent today. Had two small problems. First, because the rear of this boat is supposed to be the same as the front I ended up with double bends at the first 44inch rib, because the back should be bending in. I had noticed this on many others online, but could not figure out what caused it. It could be easily remedied by shortening the first 44” rib by one inch. The second problem was that one gunnel had more tension than the other, but that is just what you expect when dealing with wood. I inserted the keel in the rib slots to straighten it up after every thing was attached. This helped a lot but not quite enough so I placed cinder blocks to get every thing lined up and will let it dry this way. Wish me luck!
