Noob 'level' question

[INGrandad]

Okay, 'nuther noob question. On my old Lowe, I have the back floor cut and ready to work on the front deck. Because it's a narrow boat, I wanted to keep the deck fairly low for stability. Front end really ramps up, how do I tell what 'level' is? My thinking is to run the deck using the gunnel down the side as my level. I could put it in the water, but then depending on how things are balanced, it's going to float different every time out. Do you folks have a general rule for finding 'level' for decks?

 

[ben2go]

I usually level the flat part of the floor at the transom left to right and fore to aft.Then I just keep the floor and decks level from there.

 

[INGrandad]

I'll take a photo I guess, if we're talking apples and apples then I'm after oranges. Somehting like that.

I left the old bench seats in. I took the center one, which was a live well and took the lids off it, cut a board to fit, hinged it, and ran my wiring for batteries into it.

Then I cut a floor for between the rear seat and the battery well/live well, and am gonna screw it into the thwarts.

Now I need a floor/deck for between the bow seat and the battery/live well. Well, the floor there slops upward a good bit, and I was wondering what to use to level my deck from? There's a gunnel down the side, Thought maybe I'd run it parallel with that. But then I'll really be mad at myself if I get it on the water and it slopes too far ahead or back.

 

[grizzly]

on my boat, level on the water is across tops of rear and middle bench. the bow rises quite a bit above this level line.