Making Full-Size Boat Plans
You can build better boats or get a better job by learning the loftsman's trade
- Category
- Other
- Designer
- William D. Jackson
- Published
- Science and Mechanics, October 1949, pp. 140–141
A step-by-step guide to lofting: enlarging a naval architect's lines drawings to full size so frames and patterns come out fair. It explains the profile, half-breadths and body plan, how to read a table of offsets, and uses the 15 ft Rocket hydroplane as a worked example.
Specifications
- Construction
- How-to: lines plan, table of offsets, laying down profile, half-breadths and body plan full size (example: Rocket 15 ft hydroplane)
Downloads
Plan sheets 4
Tap a sheet to open the full-size scan. On a computer, right-click it and choose “Save image as” to keep a copy; on a phone, press and hold.
