I learned this trick from an 80 year old New England boat builder back when I
was restoring my old Wooden Lapstrake "towne Class" sloop. For making a boot
stripe from a marked waterline, use a common school compass. Set the compas
for the boot stripe width then use the steel point to trace along the existing
stripe and the pencil end to draw the new waterline. The pencil line can then
be used to tape the new line.
On my wooden boats, I scribed a line in the wood at the waterline and boot top
and it would form a natural guide for brush painting the new waterline even
after sanding to bare wood. The paint would flow to the scribed groove and
stop. One of my past boats had the scribe lines molded into the gelcoat and
it worked the same way.
Age and cunning will win over youth and vigor every time.
Ron
M17 #14
Griselda
> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 11:01:21 -0800> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> [email protected]> Subject: Re: M_Boats: Easy Boot
> stripe on M-17> > Hey Jeff and all.> > Sorry for the misleading title. There
> seems to be no easy way to do a boot> stripe on lapstrake. I did have the
> original gelcoat stripe to go off of,> which helped, but I went around with
> a razor knife and some of the "bendy",> easy pull painters tape and
> painstakingly taped strake to strake. I wanted> to move the stripe up a
> little so I started by putting tape under the> existing line then following
> with 1/2 inch tape on top of it (I duplicated> this at the top). The taping
> took about 2 hours, but the results were well> worth it. > > There might be
> an easier way, but I have never found one in many years of> searching.> >
> Good luck,> > Michael Ray> > Molly M> M-17 #383> > > >
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