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Strip: Lofting Freedom Canoe?
By:Travis
Date: 11/6/2011, 9:17 pm

I'm Struggling to loft the Freedom canoe from the revised CanoeCraft. This is the fourth boat I've lofted and must say the "new" layout is confusing me. I'm using a CAD program and wondering what value do I assign to Sheer in the two tables?? For instance in the table of heights Station 12 Sheer is 0-6-6. So my Y value is 6.75" (sure glad they just didn't put 6.75!)do I just input the sheer value as zero for X and then draw a horizontal line through this point to mark my sheer line on the form? then in the Table of Half breadths do I assign zero as my y (sheer) and then then 12.5" for x?? To simplify my question I understand how to plot the rest of the charts how do I plot the Sheer points? Travis