Sea Room

The Design Lines

First, they used calipers to carefully plot key reference points of sections and waterlines—vertical slices across the breadth of the hull, and horizontal slices of the hull from the deck to the bottom of the keel. They scaled these measurements to full size and developed a table of offsets which would allow them to lay down the lines on the lofting floor …

The three men stared at the complicated network of straight and curved lines which had an abstract beauty of its own apart from the way it imprinted a vision of the living boat on their brains. They all thought of Gil.

Finally, Ogden said, “Ain’t the same as building something square. Curved lines require a whole lot more figuring.” — “Sea Room” Chapter 14

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