This morning , we started with discussing those joints we made yesterday. We discussed essential skills for making a joint, including cutting, dressing (D4S, D2S), ratio (1:6, 1:8), sawing, chiseling, sketching, etc.. We still have lot of work to do to improve our skills. Chris also pointed out that in order to get the job done, marking out is an important step between the start and the finish.
After this review, Chris started to give us introduction of lofting. Today's topic is the decoding the boat plan. The table of offsets (which tells the location of important intersects in the lines plan) and Simpson's 1/3 rule (which is used to calculate the displacement of the boat) were introduced and explained by Chris. He also explained the link between the table of offsets and the lines plan.
Later in the afternoon, Chris went one step further to show us how to decoding the lines plan into digital by using AutoCAD to create a table which tells locations and ordinates of cheer and buttocks. We are going to continue this tomorrow.
PS: the toolbox and oilstone box are all finished now, I am going to review these two works (including the process, finishing, skills an tools etc. later this week)
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