A Little Help Here Please :)

Good day everyone, i just got freeship and started playing around with it to see what i can do, and i actually did design a hull but as the title says i need a little help. Well i done the hull and stuff but i was wondering how do i get rid of the leak points?? And just incase you wanted to see what i was doing in free ship look at the attachments listed below i added a file that would open with freeship and a dxf file so which ever one is easier for you then you go ahead and look at it. But yeah how do you get rid of the leak points?? And also do you save lots more scratch building a boat, than just buying a brand new boat around 40 feet??

Thanks

 

Your leak points are all along the sheer, because the hull has no deck. you don't have any leaks below the waterline so your hydrostatics work. you will have leakpoints unless you totally deck over the hull.

Steve

 

O ok thank you for responding. Umm maybe a silly question but how do i put a deck on the boat using freeship. And that boat does not have a v bottom how do i make it a v bottom?? And how do hydrostatics work i understand that it tells you if the boat floats or not but i still dont understand it?? I forgot to add when i was doing the post the picture that i used to design that hull:

 

To make a deck you need to extrude the sheer towards the centerline. to curve it you will need to add points to the lines of the deck and manipulate them to the desired curve. To vee the bottom you will need to crease the line which will be your chine then drag the centerline down in profile and adjust from there. hydrostatics tell you just about everything you need to know about the hull below the waterline. You need to get some books on design to learn how to interperet the info and apply it to your hull. Look up the threads covering learning hull design and designing books for good info. Caveate: Get someone who knows what they are doing to actually do up the design. If you KNOW what you are doing you can save some money, but you have to spend a LOT to get the experience!

Steve

 

All right thanks a little confusing to me because i am new to this but i guess ill figure it all out thanks for the help. But do you save money scratch building a boat compared to just buying brand new because a brand new 45' sportfishing boat cost around 1 million dollars, so could i scratch build a boat and finish it and everyting for around $200,000 with the same quality level, electronics, engines and everything else?? I am asking this because i made a price log kind of thing the other day that i thought was pretty realistic and i totaled up the price for a scratch built sportfishing boat around 40-50 feet and got it just under $100,000 including diseal engines, electrical, and everything else. Just wondering if i would save alot more money

 

I don't know the last sportfish I worked on the engines were around 125,000 dollars each

 

Wow i guess that kind of busted my bubble but well maybe it is still possible to keep the price fairly decent compared to buying brand new. Thanks

 

Save money

If you want to save money power down.

 

Sorry man did not mean to burst your bubble.

 

yeah u kinda did lol. I figured that since this is my first boat and most say you should build a small little boat before u build a big boat so u could learn the techniques well i am just going to build a scale model of the exact boat that i want and fiberglass it and all so i would learn the techniques and at the same time would be doing something useful because i can figure out everything and see what the big boat would look like by building the little boat