Determining width of hull planks

[Daedalus21]

How do you determine how wide a plank is at each frame? Is there a way other than using proportional dividers?

 

[Rob444]

Many people use tick strips and divide the distance of the bulkhead by the number of plans to get how wide each plank should be.

This video may be of help

Rob

 

[AllanKP69]

The video is a great tool. Also, the attached paper by David Antscherl will help. There was a post here at SoS not too long ago on making tick strips, maybe you can find it with a search. If nothing else take a string and lay it along a frame at the dead flat from the rabbet to the top of the top timber. Then straighten and measure the total length. Assuming planks are about 10-11 inches broad, divide the number of strakes needed. This number of strakes will be the same from stem to post barring the need of a drop strake or stealer. Then it is just a matter of dividing the frames every few stations by that number of strakes to make the tick strips. There is no need to make one for every frame but too many is better than not enough.
Allan