Does and one even do this by hand anymore? Are the days of batten, compass and scribe truly gone???
I use AutoCad routinely, if only to get a quick and dirty idea out of my head. I find it useful to tweak waterlines and such. Then I refine the...
The Pinkies and Block island boats of the Northeast maritimes were double enders, "pink sterned" as they were then referred. Pinks were known in...
Saudi Pocket Cruiser Tire inflation duties go to the driver as part of the pretrip inspection. Obviously a lot of sleep is lost to that chore,...
landlubber -- you are right there. I did not feel it. I feel it now though. I feel it every day, even at idle. In fact, I feel it right now,...
A house carpenter that takes the time to use 1/16th is a house carpenter who cares enough to do it right.
Truck alternators can be had up to 12VDC/300 amp. Any Freightliner dealer will do. I prefer the Leech-Neville over the Delco, as the cooling...
DELFT offsets As I have gathered from other last night, excel (or any suitable spreadsheet) is easiest for compiling your offsets. It need to be...
Terry -- Thank you for the wishes of my shoulder. Unfortunately, I am not too optomistic at the present. It is the reinflamation of an old...
Terry-- I was under the impression that DELFT was FREESHIP, under a different name. I could easily be mistaken. The "Wee Lassie" is a real work...
Mobile phones were made possible by HAM operators, paticularly those who stay on the higher freqs. I stay below 30MHz, where I can use the...
I have sucessfully imported your 15m offsets. I am obviously looking at a hull designed as part of a large and fast multi-hull project. Looks...
I have been using the starter DELFT hull. I have not tried to run your offsets yet, but will soon. The wife is ringing the dinner bell. The...
Understood. . . I think. A spreadsheet format would be much easier to compile it all, "save" it as a text. Oddly, it really does make sense to...
Chandler-- when you refer to "standard format", am I correct to assume you mean the 'proper' "foots-toes-eighths" way of figuring? KB1ONE
What I have been doing is starting with olde books and prints, or with offset tables, converting to inches for my antique Cad, and drawing out...
I see you simply wrote it out -- as a txt file and in the described format -- using windows notepad. This is exactly what I was going to do....
Thank you muchly! I have a feeling things here are about to get "much gooder"!
ancient kayaker -- I will be glad to share either success or not with you as well. All we can do is try and try again, until one or the other...
