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In the past two years or so I read on the forum about the floating line of a C&C27 mark III.
I have to raise it for my boat because it seems .5 inch below level.
Any comments someone?
Every C&C 27 owner that I know has raised their waterline. The most common practice seems to be to raise the waterline to the top of the molded-in boot stripe and then to use tape or paint to create a new boot stripe above the revised waterline. By the time the Mark IV's came along, C&C itself had made this change and moved the waterline up. One of the virtues of raising the marked waterline up beyond the true waterline is that it makes the waterline scum much easier to clean off after haulout. As well, if your hull is painted then the higher marked waterline protects the paint from being immersed for long periods, which causes it to release from the gelcoat and peel off.
Marcus
Carriden, Mk. III, Hull #847
Thank-you!
Feels better knowing that Stardust is not alone in this situation!!!
The current Wooden Boat magazine has a good article with details on cutting a new boot-top in a manner that emphasizes the boat's sheer line (an area where the 27 is well endowed) while disguising any flaws in trim fore-and-aft.
C&C may have raised the waterline on later boats, but the Towser's (hull 950) old waterline was immersed, despite keeping the boat as light as possible. I raised the waterline to the top of the marked boot-top and painted a new boot-top up a commensurate distance. The move helps keep the waterline crud off the painted boot-top surface and visually reduces the height of the topsides, but I really should have gone up farther and made the boot-top half an inch wider, as you can see from our Fleet photo (two people right in the stern) and <a href="http://www.cc27association.com/photos/towser_prestart.jpg">here</a>.
I used Interlux boot-top enamel, which is hard and durable. The one thing I didn't do, which made the job less than satisfactory is rolling and tipping the paint. It's very hard to brush on a smooth coat in the cool of the fall. Fortunately, no one looks too closely.
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
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Thanks for the advice. I need to do some work on the stern this winter... some big wind helped a nearby boat, at a mooring, dragging and hit my boat. Trying to find a way to fix the stern without repainting the whole hull and could fix the water line in that same project.
thanks again...
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