Finding the waterline.

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Any suggestions of floating the boat and going around with a marker pen, or tape will be treated with the derision they so rightly deserve :P

Dave C,

thanks for those methods....I like the idea of using a water-level, but unsure of some of the other methods.

not sure why a laser would give confusing results....but there you go.

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Yes, the clear plastic hose pipe method is the best, if there are two of you. It is a two man method.

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Float it in paint. Job done!
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Just been chatting with dad who spent his boyhood hanging around a now long gone boat yard at Keyhaven and was apprenticed to local boatbuilder and character Bill Adams. They tended to build and maintain traditional heavy clinker boats like the Lymington Pram and Oxybird along with local fishing vessels.
The method used for the waterline was much the same in many ways as previous posts.
Get the boat level and then chose the points on stem and stern where the waterline should be. They would then take a batten and tack it around the boat. stand back and look at it, move as needed and so on.
On new boats they would mark a small groove along the waterline so you could always find it for antifouling in the future.

Hardly suitable for the Jolly boat Ed but quite interesting.

Dad did say that some of the more experienced chaps did it by eye but if they got it wrong by either method there was a fair bit of ribbing(pun not intended) on the river as it was there for the whole year :shock: :? for all to see.
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Nigel wrote:Float it in paint. Job done!

Sorry - nope. Specific gravity wrong you see! on paint your dinghy is going to float a few mm, maybe even cm higher than on water.

Same problem if you sail on the sea and on fresh water - which waterline do you paint to?

Come to think of it - if the crew like pies (ahm!) do you paint a waterline for them, or for a carrot soup type team?

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Hi Thats why you have boot topping.
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Shearwater should be at the bottom - not for human consumption - given the amount of junk bait, dogfood etc. that the fishermen have been chucking in, the density of the "water" is considerably higher than elsewhere :(
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I was thinking more about the relative warmth of the water, so on the basis of the heat of Compost, Shearwater stays on top! :(
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On some venues which would be more polluted than Shearwater one wouldn't bother working out where to paint the waterline - you would just go through the motions!
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