Lofting a Boat: A step-by-step manual (The Adlard Coles Classic Boat series)

By Roger Kopanycia

A clear, step-by-step guide to the tricky art of lofting: turn a boat's design into a building plan. Aimed at traditional boat lovers, amateur DIY builders and restorers, this manual from Adlard Coles' Classic Boat series offers clear, step-by-step diagrams to enable anyone to build a boat of any size, whether power or sail. Lofting is an essential stage in the transition between designing and building a boat in order to turn the design plans into boat lines plans to measure off and build the full-size boat. The author has been teaching lofting to boatbuilding students for over 10 years, and has found that the key to understanding is visualization--hence the plethora of step-by-step diagrams in this book to assist the reader to grasp the concepts. Lofting a Boat will be welcomed by budding boatbuilders everywhere.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408131129
• ISBN13: 9781408131121
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Adlard Coles
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 0.4" x 6.8"