Boat Repair, Restoration, Building
Drawing the boat full size using the plans from the designer.
Last time, I talked a little about cutting the flat along the keel so I could put a cap over it to keep from having exposed end grain there. My friend Steve asks, “Well, exactly how did you do that?” (or words to that effect). It did, in fact, take a little bit of doing. So I decided to explain myself a little better in a follow-up post. Continue reading “Cutting the Flat”
We’ve been talking about making all the pieces for the transom of our Palm Beach 22. If you missed that part of the discussion, you can check it out at making the Transom Cheeks and Making the Transom Bows. Now it’s time to put these parts together into a unified whole. We need some guideposts, something to tell us how this piece should look when we’ve put it together successfully. Continue reading “Assembling the Transom Frame”
So, we’ve decided on boat plans and purchased them. We’ve detailed the lumber we’ll need and ordered it. Now it’s time to draw the boat’s lines full scale. That means we’ll end up with a 22 foot long drawing of the boat, since the boat will in fact be 22 feet long. As a friend of mine in the construction industry used to say, we’re going to draw it at a scale of 12 inches to the foot. The process is called lofting, because the only place big enough to do this in boat shops of old was the sail loft. Continue reading “Lofting the Palm Beach 22”