Learn the Art of Fair Curves by Lofting the Tech Dinghy
Kurt Hasselbalch, David Corcoran
Tue Jan 15 thru Fri Jan 18, 09am-05:00pm, wood shop N51-160
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 15.00 for Material Fee
This new course is a spin-off from the Museum's IAP boat building classes offered the previous two years. Lofting is the ancient art of creating the full-size curves of a hull shape in preparation to creating molds or frames to build a boat or ship. Fifty years ago and more lofting was a necessary skill for all boat builders. With the expanding use of lofting programs (many developed by persons who have never lofted) the skills of using hand and eyes to determine a fair line is a dying art. This is a great course if you wish to have a total understanding of problems and process that are now largely solved in applications. Dave Corcoran is a very experienced traditional wooden boat builder who has lofted and built a wide variety of hull forms including three different N.G. Herreshoff designs. We will use copies of the original plans by MIT Professor George Owen employed by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. to build the first group of 43 wooden lapstrake Tech Dinghies ordered by MIT. [see also our new half-hull model making class under Crafts, Hobbies and do-it-yourself].
Web: http://web.mit.edu/museum
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N 51-233A, x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
Latest update: 03-Nov-2001
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