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NCBoatbuilder -- Welcome to the SoS forums! Very nice work on the hooker so far. I love how you made the design drawings into a 3-D box to true up your build to the plans. Friendly question: are the two wood blocks underneath the keel structural, or did you use them there to match the angle of the building frame on the drawings? I have a 1/24 scale model build coming up and I may steal your method of making the sheer plan and the body plan drawings into a box from which to build her. Your work looks great. Thanks.
 
Thanks! The two blocks just set the rake of the keel and hold the model so that the frames are vertical. I have to keep going back to the drawings to pull offsets to loft each frame. They just happen to form a neat little box to keep everything square.
 
NCBoatbuilder said:
Thanks! The two blocks just set the rake of the keel and hold the model so that the frames are vertical. I have to keep going back to the drawings to pull offsets to loft each frame. They just happen to form a neat little box to keep everything square.
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I see that now. Also am seeing for the first time that you used the half-breadth drawing as the base for your 3-D box. Ingenious! It's probably too late, but you could if you wanted cut the half-breadth plan in half (top down view and bottom up view) and do a reverse copy of the top down view so you can mate the two halves of the top down view for a complete top down perspective (assuming the hull is symmetrical). I'm very interested in your hooker build, and your building approach, so if you decide to do a build log of the Galway Hooker I'd follow it.
 
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