Whiskey line
When you put the last plank on your boat it’s called the shutter plank or the whiskey plank. Done. Grab a drink. There’s really no formal name for finishing the last line on a drawing, but Mike called his the Whiskey Line, and I couldn’t have said it better. So, Prost! I completed my whiskey line right at the bell on Friday. No more drafting for a while…
So, here’s the sequence. First, the lines plan, showing 3 views of the boat along with 2 diagonal lines used to see if your other lines are fair. The top of the paper shows the Plan View, essentially a contour map of half the hull looking down. Underneath that are the 2 Diagonal lines. At the bottom of the page is the Profile View (a side view with contour lines called Buttocks), and a Body Plan superimposed in the center. The Body Plan is a head on view of the boat, again showing the boat sliced like a loaf of bread.
The Lines Plan was developed from the measurements we took off the boat directly. It’s really just a smaller copy of the lofting that we did on the floor.
The more complex drawing was the construction drawing. This is derived from the lines plan and details how the boat is actually built. The construction drawing looks like a boat and includes a few cross sections and part details. With the lines plan and construction drawings in hand, you should be able to build yourself a boat.
A few details of the drawing…
The thing that makes this so hard and takes so long is getting all the measurements right and then scaling it accurately in the drawing. Given that our boat lacked quite a few of the details in this drawing, we had to make up how things were probably constructed, given how other boats by the same designer were built.
In this case, the Lawley tenders were actually given to the buyer of larger boats as tenders for these boats. It’s the yacht version of ‘batteries included.’ So, these nice little boats were made as quickly as possible, and often from offcuts and scraps of the larger boats that they were to tend. Even with this background, they included many subtle and elegant details like chamfered seat edges, decorative supports beneath the seats, and beading along the risers. No longer bucko. Now you can’t even get a meal on a plane for free.
August 16th, 2007 at 8:55 am
These images are great :-). Being sort of new to it, it’s really great and helpful to have such nice illustrations to look at while I’m getting my brain accustomed to looking at things this way. Whoot!