How to Understand a Boat Plan
Reading lines drawings, offsets and construction plans
- Category
- Other
- Designer
- Weston Farmer
- Published
- Sports Afield Boatbuilding Annual, 1954, pp. 59–65
Weston Farmer explains how to read a boat plan: the lines drawing, waterlines and buttock lines, the body plan, the construction plan and the table of offsets, plus block and prismatic coefficients. Essential reading before building any plan on this site.
Downloads
Plan sheets 5
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