Albatross black line - Waterline or unpainted area?

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Tatra Man
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Albatross black line - Waterline or unpainted area?

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Having stripped some paint and anti-fouling from the bottom of 2003, I found this black line:-

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The paint below that line came off much more easily than the paint above so what does the line signify? Does it delineate the originally unpainted area (which I surmised was backwards from the joint at the front of the engine bay) or is it where a different colour (red?) was used? As you can see, it starts pretty far forward and looks like it's roughly where the water line is.
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I hope my new Alpine floats better than my old one!

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