Re: M_Boats: Marking The Waterline

[Richard Lane]

Unfortunately there is no substitute for floating the boat loaded as 
expected ( skipper-motor-anchor-etc) inorder to measure the waterline. A 
small float or dinghy can be used with the boat in it's slip to mark the 
top of the boot stripe location which should be so placed to have the 
bottom paint slightly above water as this greatly reduces weed and slime 
growth.
Dick, ex M23, present NS26

ron and cathryn goodspeed wrote:

Hello Wayne,  Yes, I am assuming that the bottom of the keel is 
parallel to the DWL- Maybe the cockpit seat should be used to level 
the boat, I don't know what conventions marine architects use but many 
drawings of boats in general show the horizontals of keel and seat to 
be parallel to the DWL.  Maybe Jerry or Bob have some better info on 
this?  If not I'll just figure something out- besides, You can't see 
it from the cockpit anyway and with a new bottom I'll be going by so 
fast........  : -) .

Ron Goodspeed

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