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Strip: breakaway forms
By:leif olson
Date: 3/5/2003, 8:48 pm

Hey Nick! So I have two questions for you, they are both probably painfully obvious. The first concerns the breakaway forms. I am building a Guillemot and have everthing lofted out but on my 3 cockpit forms they have no top. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but in your book the offsets for forms 8,9,10 are missing the numbers to complete the top portion (the breakaway portion). My other problem (concerning the boat anyway!)is the cutout for the bow form, where do you measure from? One the stern you measure up from the DWL but the bow shows the cutout floating somewear above the DWL. So those are my two major problems right now, Like I said I'm probably missing something totally obvious. Thanks for the help. Say I'm also doing some carving on my boat do you have any ideas on how best to attach a small carved prow piece? Leif ;)

Messages In This Thread

Strip: breakaway forms
leif olson -- 3/5/2003, 8:48 pm
Re: Strip: breakaway forms
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/6/2003, 9:08 pm