True Round Metal Boat Building: Bezier Chine Design

By D.L. Schaffer

The steel and aluminum True Round boat-building method that I am about to introduce, 'Bezier Design and Construction', is a high-tech computer design method that blends well with the Industry standard metal fabrication layout method know as 'Approximate Development'.

'Bezier Design and Construction' engineers the entire boat structure, including the true round shell plating. Most notable 'Bezier Construction' is simple, consistent, and predictable taking the arcane and artistic skills out of plating a True Round metal hull. Replacing those skills with fabrication methods used in today's in the Metal Fabrication Industry

The build used to illustrate 'Bezier Design and Construction' is a small, curvy, classic tumblehome design. If this curvy aluminum Saiboat can be built using Bezier Chine Design and Construction then any other True Round hull shape would certainly be a breeze.

While I have built several plywood and hard chine steel designs, I have no experience in the arcane and artistic skills required to plate a True Round Hull. The development of 'Bezier Design and Construction' is a result of my career in Architectural Metal Fabrication, CNC Programming, Sheet-metal pattern Development, and my studies at the 'Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology'.

'Bezier Design and Construction' was first published in 2016 and has evolved since the building of the Prototype hull. This edition incorporate several new design features, construction details, and welding details. However, the basic premise has not changed.

DL Schaffer

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1533471223
• ISBN13: 9781533471222
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"