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Re: Strip: Lofty Ideas
By:Malcolm Schweizer
Date: 11/1/2002, 6:58 pm
In Response To: Strip: TABLE OF OFFSETS (warren)

Here are two sites, although they are rather lengthy in discussion, and focus more on bigger boats....

http://sailing.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://dixdesign.com/lofting1.htm

http://sailing.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://persweb.direct.ca/tbolt/lofting.htm

Lofting a stripper is easy. Why? Because you are actually lofting flat cross-sections of the kayak, which will be the forms. Each offset is a point on a drawing. When the points are all connected with a faring batten (straight piece of flexible wood or plastic) you will have 1/2 a form. Since the forms are symmetrical you can actually fold it over, trace it, and viola... a whole form. You don't really have to think in three dimensions.

Lofting a stitch-n-glue, on the other hand, is more complicated, because you are lofting long sections of the hull that are layed flat. I won't even try to get into that. Like the others said, Nick's book does a great job. There is a book on lofting available from www.woodenboat.com, but when trying to copy the link location I couldn't. Go to www.woodenboat.com and search for "lofting." That's the title of the book.

Good luck!
-Malcolm

Messages In This Thread

Strip: TABLE OF OFFSETS
warren -- 11/1/2002, 3:56 pm
Re: Strip: TABLE OF OFFSETS
warren -- 11/13/2002, 8:28 pm
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warren -- 11/13/2002, 1:15 pm
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Mike Rury -- 11/11/2002, 1:30 pm
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Shawn Baker -- 11/11/2002, 1:50 pm
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Mike Rury -- 11/11/2002, 4:41 pm
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Randy Oswald -- 11/12/2002, 10:58 am
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Shawn Baker -- 11/12/2002, 1:16 pm
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Jack Sanderson -- 11/4/2002, 10:00 am
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Randy Oswald -- 11/4/2002, 10:45 am
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Chris McD -- 11/4/2002, 12:23 pm
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Randy Oswald -- 11/8/2002, 1:43 pm
Re: Strip: TABLE OF OFFSETS
david schneider -- 11/2/2002, 10:02 am
Re: Strip: Lofty Ideas
Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/1/2002, 6:58 pm
Re: Strip: Lofty Ideas *LINK*
Chip Sandresky -- 11/1/2002, 7:28 pm
Re: Strip: TABLE OF OFFSETS
Tom Johansnen -- 11/1/2002, 6:31 pm
Re: Strip: TABLE OF OFFSETS
Steve Rasmussen -- 11/1/2002, 6:26 pm
Re: Strip: TABLE OF OFFSETS
Rick Allnutt -- 11/1/2002, 7:55 pm