The intersections of the contours of various horizontal and vertical sections are measured from an imaginary base line using an architects scale.

Boat building lofting. Moreover youre going to be able to interpret plans and better comprehend the shape of the vessel and what the building process will be. The boat had badly lost its shape but in lofting it I was able to derive its original shape. Lofting is a term used in wooden boat buildingA boat design starts with a complicated drawing that lists dimensions and other pertinent information.

Australia LBG Junior Member. With this simple way you can always get the right sha. Drawing the plans full size had two main objectives.

For latest work on the boat check the Planking page. In an effort to ensure the finished boat maintains its lines including graduated curves in the hull builders require the initial design drawings in. This creates all the shapes and patterns necess.

Lofting time for a design will vary from a day for a single chine hull to maybe two weeks for a large and complicated round bilge hull. Lofting inner parts of the boat shape or even beam curvature is sometimes a trial and error adventure. Discussion in Metal Boat Building started by LBG May 9 2005.

One fun fact is the origin of the term lofting. All boat plans required lofting in the days before CAD Computer Aided Design when the plans were hand drawn. Lofting began in March 2011.

So I added a lofting page to my website. In his book Boatbuilding Chapelle says there was never a boat built in which too much lofting had been done I took this to heart lofting took 6 months. Taken as part of the total duration of the boat building project that is a very small proportion and certainly not worthy of compromising the final result.