State of Art old lines drawings.

I once did the hull lines from a hundred years old drawings. I had to refresh how to recalculate the coordinates of feet’s – inches -eighths and manually input offset table. There were no original drawings. There were only pictures of them. Once again, I was amazed by the quality of the old drawings. When smoothing the lines of the hull, the surface went to the original points easily. And, in the end, I made well faired hull for production.


Somebody will just say that you are too romantic! I think, long time ago shipbuilding was passion, so lines had to be smooth! But, even now days, if you don't really like it you will not be good in it.

Eric Holohan

Maritime Professional, Naval architect and Entrepreneur.

6 年

I have done this many times , and it always feels like you are freeing an old master from the paper. Hard work but very therapeutic.

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