Here is a picture https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=20170130_123948.jpg

   Here is the port side bulkhead https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=20170130_123903.jpg

   Austin,

I can't access your pictures, but you would like the bulkhead to fit well with the deck. You are correct that you should definately plane or sand down the bulkhead so everything fits properly. As far as the curve of the deck, that is fairly arbitrary. You might consider flexing a batten from rail to rail and drawing a new curve on your bulkhead. Clamp the batten so that the peak of the curve comes out in the center of the boat.

Kits are great, but sometimes one must fall back to traditional boatbiulding!

Hope this is helpful. 

Have fun with the process,

Joel

Thanks for your reply Joel.  I will plane the bulkhead down.  

I hate to bring up another problem of mine, but I noticed than when I dry-fit the mast partner doubling plate on the underside of the deck, it sticks out from underneath the deck an inch.  The deck overhangs the bulkhead 4.5" - which appears to be correct according to the plans, but the doubling plate is 5.5", hence the 1" overshoot.  Did I cut the deck too short (it extends 34" from the bow), or can I just cut the doubling plate down to come flush to the deck?

View from under deck:

And overhead view: