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My smarmy comment about the Boston Whaler Corp. was a mistake.

I need to know if I can omit painting a narrow horizontal boottop-like area above the sides of the boat; above that sharp transition between the bottom and the sides of the boat. I haven't seen boats with bottom paint above the chine (that transition) so I think that this year I won't paint above the chine and I'll tape from chine to chine on the transom. then it should be easy enough to make a laser line underneath the forward part of the boat, both sides.

I like your water-based plan but unfortunately, for a number of reasons, I don't have the means to do that. I need to paint the bottom here in Massachusetts - on my trailer and in my garage - and launch the boat in Penobscot Bay when I get up there, then put it on the mooring.

Everything I do related to painting has to be done in my garage here in MA. So that's the scenario.

Thanks for your message. I wish I could find a scale drawing of a Sport 150 that shows an imaginary waterline so I could plot it on my boat.