Joe, Ron, and Michael. Thanks for the boot stripe ideas. I look forward to tackling this job in the spring and will keep these things in mind.
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronnie Keeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Montgomery boats mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 11:20 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Easy Boot stripe on M-17 > > 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> > > > _______________________________________________> > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. > http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008 > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
