Feeling Half-Hull? Carve a Tech Dinghy Model
Kurt Hasselbalch, Reuben Smith
Mon Jan 14 thru Fri Jan 18, 09am-01:00pm, woodshop N51-160
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2002
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 25.00 for Materials Fee
Back by popular demand for this new course, Reuben Smith brings his substantial boat building/restoration experience and down to earth approach in teaching how to use hand tools in translating a lines plan into a beautiful half-hull model. You will make a model which you will keep, and will learn how to use various hand tools and how to keep them sharp. You'll also learn a great deal about the design process. Before the adaptation of scientific design in the late 19th-century, ship and boat builders commonly sculpted the hull shape in the form of a half-hull model. We'll use copies of original plans by MIT Professor George Owen used by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. to build the first group of 43 wooden lapstrake Tech Dinghies built for MIT. [see also lofting class under Engineering: Hands on].
Web: http://web.mit.edu/museum
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N52-233A, x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
Latest update: 02-Nov-2001
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