The lofting continues, we have been getting into the more technical aspects of the task today, some may call it fun, but then again some people enjoy bungee jumping or swimming in shark infested waters. Lofting is an exciting experience, not least because, as the following photographs demonstrate, you never know what is going to happen... you SHOULD but where would the fun be in that.
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| Smooth flowing lines |
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| Cue for hysteria, the effect of a measuring error! |
The above waterline lofting provided a wonderful moment of light relief, bear in mind the idea is that the lines of a boat should be a series of gentle and fluent curves, and even where they are a little sharper they should have a coherence...
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| The corrected waterline... smooth curves! |
Once the hysterical peels of laughter had subsided and everybody had rushed to take a photograph, this will appear on facebook at the very least, I put it right.
We have another day of sorting out the basic lines and then we have to start putting all the detail into the lofting ready for making the templates and moulds over the next couple of weeks, it seems amazing that we will be laying the keel in the 3rd week of June...
