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    Default Waterline Painting?

    Hi all,
    I was wondering about painting the waterline/bottom of the boat a different color than the sides. On a boat like the Goat or PDRacer which draws very little, and has sufficient rocker that the bow and the stern are rarely wet at the same time, how does one go about deciding on the line. Or do you just paint the bottom to the chine and leave the sides alone? I am new to this stuff, and don't want to arbitrarily draw a line and make a well designed boat look like crap.
    What say you experienced boatwrights?
    -Al

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    Hi Al,

    Hope you are going well and that NY is not too cold.

    You might find this useful
    https://www.woodworkforums.com/f169/gis-waterline-77479/

    How is work going - got anything interesting happening? (Al trained as a sculptor and has a business making one off architectural components or anything in metals - bronze doors anyone - he's done 'em).

    Where is your website Al?

    MIK

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    Hi MIK!
    Thanks for the link, everything I wanted to know. It looks like my powers of searching need a bit of improvement.

    Not too much going on here. I'm told the old economy is still not fairing so well, so I have a lot more time than I used to to work on boats and sculpture. I'm sure the bills will get paid one way or another

    Too cold to sail the duck, so I finished shaping my GIS foils, am almost done with my spars, have glued the framing to my bulkheads, and I am gearing up to start the birdsmouth mast. I was thinking about taking some pics of my progress so far, and posting them in a new goat thread, now where did I put the camera charger...

    I especially want to post a pic of that bronze anchor I forgot to show you.

    The website is being setup to forward to my flickr page,
    Flickr: amorphous studios inc's Photostream
    Cheers,
    Al
    Last edited by Boatmik; 1st December 2009 at 01:18 PM. Reason: paragraphs.

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    Glad it was a useful link. Helps if you know some of the words in what you are looking for when searching - so is pretty easy for me.

    Good news on the boatbuilding front. I suspect the puddle duck being off the water has made life more boring for the barge captains on the river.

    Al sails on the river in New York and has a marine band radio aboard and can hear all the barge captains chatting happily about the PDRacer.

    Some pics would be great.
    MIK

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