Showing posts with label lofting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lofting. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

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.