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Originally Posted by glatt
Is there enough information on those plans to actually build a boat hull?
I'm familiar with tables of offsets to cut plywood panels into the proper shape for a stitch and glue, and tables to cut forms to the proper shape for a stripper, but I'm not sure how you would turn a plan like this into an actual boat. Do you somehow take measurements off the plans to make the bow and ribs of the boat? I assume once you have that, you can just fit planking to that skeleton without a plan.
How's it work?
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Not without a lot of work, there is no table of offsets, so you'd have to get a teensy tape measure and measure out all the lines as drawn, then scale them up (loft them) and then you'd still probably need to fidget a lot to get things fair.
I read somewhere "A cabinet maker builds to the nearest 1/32nd, a carpenter to the nearest 1/8th, and a boat builder to the nearest boat." Indicating the inexactness of the whole process, in other words as long as it's fair.
Here's a table of offsets for one of my top 5. (When I have some more time, I'll make smaller jpegs of the lot and post them.