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Re: Strip: Lofting the Great Auk
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 11/2/2015, 12:33 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Lofting the Great Auk (Morris L. Halsey)

If you enjoy the lofting process, get a copy of Vaitses' 'Lofting' and then loft the lengthwise lines as well as the stations (the traditional way). Generally the stations are corrected from the lengthwise lines to make sure you end up with a fair (and fair looking) craft- that was my experience lofting a couple of boats - one a dinghy, the other a 30-foot sailboat.
For a kayak, you can loft with the length 'compressed' to 50% so you can often do the job on a plywood 2 x8 or 2 x 10 sheet.

It's a useful skill if you decide some day you want to change the deck profile on a plan, etc. (and don't fancy learning to use another piece of computer software).

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Strip: Lofting the Great Auk
Morris L. Halsey -- 11/1/2015, 11:46 am
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Morris L. Halsey -- 11/1/2015, 11:52 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/1/2015, 11:57 am
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Morris L. Halsey -- 11/1/2015, 12:30 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/1/2015, 1:01 pm
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Morris L Halsey -- 11/26/2016, 7:28 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/26/2016, 8:51 pm
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Morris L Halsey -- 11/26/2016, 11:27 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/27/2016, 12:19 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/27/2016, 12:19 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/27/2016, 12:36 am
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Morris L Halsey -- 11/27/2016, 12:44 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/27/2016, 1:48 pm
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anewhouse -- 11/27/2016, 3:17 am
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Paul Sylvester -- 11/27/2016, 6:03 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/28/2016, 12:06 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/28/2016, 1:45 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/28/2016, 6:25 am
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Morris L. Halsey -- 11/1/2015, 1:45 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/1/2015, 2:37 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/1/2015, 2:35 pm
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Morris L. Halsey -- 11/1/2015, 3:31 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/1/2015, 5:44 pm
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Morris L. Halsey -- 11/1/2015, 7:53 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/1/2015, 9:48 pm
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Morris L. Halsey -- 11/1/2015, 11:08 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/2/2015, 4:32 am
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Etienne Muller -- 11/27/2016, 7:30 am
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Etienne Muller -- 11/27/2016, 7:34 am
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Tom Larson -- 11/27/2016, 11:45 am
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Etienne Muller -- 11/27/2016, 1:59 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 11/27/2016, 10:24 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/2/2015, 12:33 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/2/2015, 4:08 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/2/2015, 12:14 am