[J22-Fleet 1] Waterline

[Michael Bowers]

Do you mean exposed fiberglass?  Gelcoat should be fine, you've just
got to wash it once in a while.  Assuming you'll be keeping your boat
on a lift, I'd rather have the gelcoat then bottom paint.  Chalky
anti-fouling paint is fairly rough and the smoother teflon impregnated
paints don't stick very well and often start peeling after a season or
two.  Roger Carlson--chime in here.

As to checking shapes, I think you'll find that most of the J22's are
down in Glencoe in a barn.  I don't have the full details of
where...you'd have to check with Dave Brasch or someone that tows their
boat there.  I would imagine that if you call a few of the boat owners,
they'll give you permission to go take some measurements of their
boats.

My final 2 cents, shaping a keel is more of an art than a science.  It
is critical to get the 2 sides symetric or you'll get nasty vortices
off the keel that will disrupt the rudder.  I'm very much a "do it
yourselfer", but shaping the keel is something I'd hire out to a select
few people (Fred Scroth from TX or John Pratt in MA to name a
couple)rather do myself.

Mike
--- Dallas <dallas at dallasjohnson.net> wrote:

> 
> Compu-keel templates are copywritten, you're not supposed to loan
> them
> out or resell them. 
> 
> 
> Chis Doyle (class prez, I think) once said he was going to make a
> plot
> of the class minimum shape, but I don't know what happened to that.
> Compu-keel is effectively the same as the class minimum shape. 
> 
> 
> dj
> 
> 
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Jacob Bowman" jakebowman at gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:41:10 -0600
> To: j22 at lists.wyc.org
> Subject: [J22-Fleet 1] Waterline
> 
> > Sorry for being a pest. I've got to add some sort of finish on the
> bottom
> > of my boat as it is bare gelcoat right now. Is there someplace on
> the web
> > that has some measurements of where I should put the waterline? Or
> would
> > one of you guys be willing to make a few measurements for me? Or is
> one of
> > your boats laying around somewhere that I could swing by and take a
> few
> > measurements?
> > 
> >Also, I haven't been able to find a set of keel templates. The set
> that
> > Lars has aren't really for shaping a keel, they are more for
> establishing
> > maximum/minimums. So if anyone has a set of the templates and they
> would be
> > willing to let me borrow or copy them I'd be eternally grateful.
> > 
> > Thanks a ton,
> > Jacob Bowman
> > 
> > 
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