Lofting

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For anyone starting out in boat building, this book provides basic instruction that helps the reader understand the process of lofting, or drawing the lines and plans for boats. Read this book with pencil, paper and ruler in hand to get the most out of it. Using this book, I was able to loft plans for a dinghy. The experience helped me to understand the plans for a more complex sailboat. Having read this book, I would like to see a follow-up that spends more time on more complex lofting techniques.

save your money as common thought will get you there

I'm certain that a knowledgeable structural or mechanical engineer would find this book accessible and helpful. As a novice boatbuilder whose experience is limited to cedar-strip canoes, I found it completely baffling in both important senses. It did not explain to me how to transfer a boat plan to a form, and it did not explain how to construct the boat. Mostl;y, this is due to my unfamiliarity with the technical language and/or the fact that the author makes some pretty broad assumptions about the knowledge the reader has coming into the book.This is NOT a book for the novice boat-builder.

All anyone needs unless you are a proffessional

i have only flipped through this book so im not going to say much about whats in it.i just wanted to say that my book came with the spiral binding....maybe some of them do not?? it seems that way,according to one other guy ....this title came up so darn often ,no matter where i was reading,,or the website,,,when it came to "LOFTING they always came back to this book. from some of the referrals i read,,,i trust them,,and eventually give this a read.

If you know nothing about boat building and lofting when you pick this up, it will be a very hard read. I went to school for Mechanical Engineering about a million years ago, knew nothing about boats, and gave up figuring out lofting from this book. The author assumes you know a lot about the subject up front. I read 98% of my technical book purchases from cover to cover. This one was one of the 2%.

read this years ago and wanted to re-read it. Still valid.

I was looking forward to reading and learning from this book. It is like so many books written by 'experts' they know what they are talking about, but they can't explain it clearly (in writing) to others. You need to know all about lofting to understand what he is talking about! Gougeon brothers do it much better.

Does this book cover rotated stem sections for the true bearding lines

Exactly as described. Got it sooner too. No problems, would buy from you again. thanks

I got lost in the writing style a bit. Confusing attention spent on lofting around the backbone. I stopped reading on Page 35. Ordered "Lofting a boat" by Roger Kopanycia, which is excellent in every way. Will give that one five stars

tracé et construction d'un petit bateau. méthodes à utiliser pour la fabrication d'une coque de bateau en contreplaqué à bouchains vifs.