Understanding Boat Design 36 PDF

The document discusses how a boat builder needs to have the hull lines drawn full size in order to make frames or molds for the boat. Traditionally, builders would redraw the lines by hand on the floor, but now they can use a computer-aided design (CAD) program and plotter to automatically draw the lines full size from dimensions provided by the designer, saving time and effort. The lines drawing provides information about the boat's seaworthiness, comfort, and performance, including how beam width affects stability, roll, and underwater hull shape characteristics.

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Understanding Boat Design 36 PDF

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builder, however, needs to have the hull lines full size

FIGURE 3-4
in order to make the frames or molds for the boat. These boats have the same beam at the deck.
Many builders still get down on their hands and
knees on a large floor and redraw the lines full size

from a table of dimensions (called offsets) provided

by the designer. With computers, however, it is pos-

sible to have a plotter draw the lines full size from a

CAD (computer-aided design) program. This can

save the builder considerable time and sore knees.
The drawing can be done on paper, but this may cre-

ate problems because paper patterns can stretch and

shrink with changes in humidity Mylar is preferred

by many builders, as it is a stable material and

ensures accurate lofting.
Now that we've introduced the lines drawing
views, let's see how to interpret them. These drawings
are not mute; they have secrets to tell about a boat's
likely seaworthiness, comfort, and performance.
Chapter 4 concerns hull profiles, so we'll postpone
that discussion and instead start with the body plan.
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The Body Plan

slowly but to greater angles in beam seas.
Beam
Stability is also affected by the underwater hull
Beam is, perhaps, the first and most important shape. Hard bilges or chines combined with low-
body-plan characteristic to consider. It is obvious deadrise angles contribute to initial stability, and give
that a beamy hull has more interior space than its the vessel a snap roll (Figure 3-5). Softer bilges, steep
narrower sister, but there are many other ways in deadnse, and a slack garboard indicate a more tender
which beam affects the design. hull. The hull shape of a sailing yacht is not the sole
The stability of a boat increases with an increase criterion for determining stabifity, though, since the
in beam. This must be qualified by pointing out amount and location of the ballast is a major factor
that hulls of similar overall beam can vary wddely and must be given equal consideration.
in stability Figure 3-4 shows two examples having With a displacement motorboat, or a planing hull
the same beam at the deck. The boats on the right operating at displacement speeds, wide beam
have a wide waterline beam and possess great ini- increases resistance and is detrimental to perfor-
tial stability They will be stiff, with a snappy roll m mance and fuel economy. Long, narrow hulls are
beam seas. The boats on the left have maximum more easily driven at slower speeds and have an eas-
beam at the deck and are quite narrow at the LWL. ier motion as a rule. But the planing hull is a different
These boats are tender and have a tendency to roll story. A moderate increase in beam lowers the resis-