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Topic: waterline
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marksmith
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posted July 08, 2005 07:24 PM
   
I am planning on putting some anti-fouling on our CL16. We purchased it in Jan and have not had it in the water yet. Can anyone advice how I can calculate where to paint to (ie. where the waterline is?) ThanksIP: 142.167.144.94 |
Canadian Sailor
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posted July 08, 2005 08:29 PM
There should be a large blue band of paint around your boat. That's the waterline, if there isn't one, I don't know what to offer.IP: 209.226.189.51 |
whited
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posted July 08, 2005 08:40 PM
In the Sandpiper owner's manual, it tells exactly how to mark your waterline. Contact Cody or Tom...the CL16 manual might have same.IP: 142.177.169.225 |
Eric
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posted July 08, 2005 10:26 PM
This may sound crazy, but you could leave the boat in the water for a couple of weeks. Then haul it out. Before you wash the scum, mark the waterline. Then wash the hull, and then paint to your line.Not too scientific, but it could work  Eric IP: 64.228.0.117 |
Patrick Crooks
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posted July 08, 2005 10:39 PM
I like Eric's idea. Or you can place the boat in the water at waist to chest deep and walk around with a maker to mark.Patrick IP: 142.161.145.45 |
marksmith
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posted July 10, 2005 05:00 PM
Thanks guys. Maybe the easiest way to tell is if someone could post a picture of a CL16 sitting in the water. I've found quite a few picture of Sandpipers in the water here so it is pretty easy to tell where the waterline is on one of those :-) I would post a picture of my boat (sitting turtle in the b/yard) but best I can tell you can only "attach" a url to a picture, not post pictures directly. Since I don't have any pictures up on the net that won't help. Sent an email to Cody and Tom but have not heard back yet?
Cheers
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whited
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posted July 10, 2005 07:59 PM
You might have to 'phone' Cody or Tom.
They tend to be a little slow with e-mails.
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henning
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posted July 11, 2005 09:08 PM
MarksmithIf you have a laser level, try setting up your CL on the trailer so that it is level fore/aft on the centerboard trunk, and port/starboard on thwart. Then you can shoot the waterline by setting up the laser on its tripod (level it out on the bubble/ring indicator)and swing it across the length of the hull making pencil marks at regular intervals. On my CL, the waterline at the transom is about 1/2" above the block for the lower rudder pivot block.
Anyway, this might be a convoluted method, but it should work alright.
Let me know if it works, because I have to do mine too (and typically have let it slide)!!
Cheers,
Doug IP: 70.71.1.41 |
marksmith
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posted July 22, 2005 03:56 PM
Henning, my son Sean and I tried the laser level trick. Cody suggested the same. Sean lined the boat up on the trailer by eye ball and I think he got it pretty level. However, I think we got the height off by a few inches.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/marksmithhfx/album?.dir=/ffc1&.src=ph&.tok=phqJ_VDBkNbNgrAR Don't know if that link will work or not. Eric, Patrick, I didn't have access to water so had to guess where the WL went and I think I underestimated just how high the boat sits in the water. Also, did more than anti-foul. Put 5 coats of interprotect on first because the bottom was a bit rough and I didn't want to see it turn into a sponge. Anyone have alternate suggestions as to where to post pics online? Thanks again for all the help. We're learning (oh, and went for the 1st sail. What a blast!!!). -- Mark
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marksmith
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posted July 22, 2005 04:21 PM
A clue... I just noticed on the CL site it says the draft on the 16 is 8 inches. Is that how far the boat sits in the water? (ie. how far up on the side of the boat the waterline is?). Well, we'll know next time IP: 142.167.141.150 |
2short S565
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posted July 22, 2005 07:12 PM
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Originally posted by marksmith:
Anyone have alternate suggestions as to where to post pics online? Thanks again for all the help. We're learning (oh, and went for the 1st sail. What a blast!!!).
-- Mark
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henning
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posted July 22, 2005 11:11 PM
Your pics show a sweet looking boat, Mark. I bet you and your boy had a real blast!! Really, the CL16 is a sweet little sailboat...Your water line looks great, and actually I kind of like the look with the blue higher than the waterline. Have you thought of putting on a gloss black bootstripe to separate the blue from the white? If you overlapped the bottom paint (did you use the hard, semi-gloss type, or the sluffing type?), it would effectively lower the bottom paint on the hull. Regards,
Doug IP: 70.71.7.89 |
marksmith
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posted July 23, 2005 10:44 AM
Doug, I'll have to try some sort of overpaint scheme next year... I used fiberglass bottomkote from interlux. I'm not exactly sure what the properties are (I think its hard not soft). Next time I'm out I'll try to remember to measure how far up the transom we painted above the lower rudder pivot block. Thanks again for the great advice, I don't think we would have got it so straight otherwise. -- MarkIP: 142.167.141.150 |
