Amateur Boat Building How-to: Making a half model

Half model making is the precursor to lofting. In a sense one is lofting in a different medium. Boat builders were obviously familiar with wood and the tools required to shape wood, and probably less familiar with working out a design starting with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil and some battens. They could carve a model and, working by eye, eventually arrive at a shape that, to their experience and aesthetics, would work.

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