Lofting.

Without doubt a most fascinating process. Taking a Chappelle designed dinghy, I worked with a team of colleagues for a week to learn the principles of lofting, and then for several early morning sessions  I discovered an affinity for this incredibly useful process. I took the exercise much further, creating our own stations and diagonals, more sections of rabbet lines around the stem, and culminating in working up expansions of a raked and radiused transom.

There are several more lofting projects in the pipeline at IBTCP and I am looking forward to learning even more. Lofting is useful. With simple pencils and nails, tick-sticks and battens, and a methodical approach, it’s possible to calculate the exact dimensions of any and every part of a given vessel. Absolutely brilliant.