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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