Lofting

Lofting. WTF. This nebulous word has haunted me from the start of my boat building dreams. What happens is you get a table like this:

And a few images like this:

Then they say you can use the magical spell of "lofting" to somehow make full sized boat plans. Yeah. But thank God for the internet! Cuz of sites like this, I can now keep dreaming and move forward... I think... I'll still need to figure out what the offsets chart is for.

In the mean time, I've found out that Marine Plywood is $80 a sheet...grumblegrumble. Happier news is that I've printed out the plans! My boy wants to make a 1"-1'0" scale model of the boat before we start on the big guy. This seems smart to me.