The boat and rocker is dead on the money. The waterline was an afterthought at one point of it's development and went through several updates in the hull design in which I did not update the waterline. I was actually going to remove but left in on there as a visual guide for any patterns of stripping. This boat was designed pretty much manually and refined with a nautical lofting program. You're obviously a very meticulous person and the second in many years to discover that. If you feel the waterline is something you want to strip to, cosmetically, just average it out to your taste. You have to remember, that my waterline is in an empty boat.

Jay-
I'm not clear on what you mean, exactly.

Are you saying that the waterline(s) marked on the forms are not necessarily where the boat will float in the water?

OR

When the forms are properly set up on the strongback using the rocker measurements, the marked waterlines on the forms will not necessarily align?

I guess I'm thinking of lofting boats 'on the floor'. When lofting from a Table of Offsets, the DWL (and the other WL related to it) are the standard reference lines for 'vertical' measurements.