Good question. I'm new to working with glass. The basic shape hasn't changed much. I took off maybe 1/8-3/16" in thickness in most places. Not smooth by any means, now. Unless I come up with something else, I'll just use a squeegee and eyeball it. As you may have seen, I ground down probably too much on the very bottom of the first hull, making a 1/4" gap. I filled that in as planned this morning. This evening I built up on top of that, making the wedge shaped bottom part out of epoxy and silica. Smoothed it out fairly roughly with a spatula/squeegee.
Pic here shows that first bow after the second epoxy job. You can see the white silica filled epoxy. It's replacing what I ground away. Next step is laying up the Knytex. After that, I imagine I'll have to come back and put a coat or 2 of epoxy, I suppose by brushing it on. Not sure how it's gonna level out, since it's on a vertical surface. Might have to thicken it a bit, maybe drag the squeegee over it. Dunno yet.
If this does or would look like crap, I'm thinking of just painting. I've heard polyurethanes might do well. Gelcoat is another possibility.
