Fair Lines and the Art of Lofting
Dave Corcoran Bullhouse Boatworks
Tue Jan 13 thru Fri Jan 16, 09am-05:30pm, N51-160, Dept. of Architecture Woodshop
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2004
Limited to 6 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
Fee: 10.00 for materials cost
Lofting is the manual process of describing complex curved surfaces in full-scale on a two-dimensional surface. This age old art is the key first step to ship and boat building. The class will loft a Herreshoff dinghy from the original offsets in the Hart Nautical Collections. The instructor has lofted and built more plank on frame replicas of Herreshoff designs than anyone breathing. You will learn the fundamentals by laying out lines with battens and training your eyes to see fair lines. After completing the class you will have a fuller understanding of CAD applications. Please come aboard and help the MIT Museum celebrate our 5th "Nautical Skills" IAP course. Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Architecture.
Contact: Kurt Hasselbalch, N52 2nd flr., x3-5942, kurt@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Museum
Latest update: 19-Nov-2003
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