Panelizing

The panel winds up

In the last post we had established our two waterlines on the plan drawing.

Now we can take of the length of each on the waterlines in the same manner that we took of the length of the bottom panels and transfer those measurements to the new waterlines.

In the picture below the cyan line is station 5 on the plan drawing and we take our measurements from that station working forward and then aft for each water line.

 

Where the circles cut the waterlines we make a tick mark.

And then join the tick marks to make new stations lines and extend them beyond the waterlines. You will notice that the stern has been drawn in and you can do the same for the bow.

Once those lines are drawn then you can start to take the measurements above and below the waterlines from the section drawing.

And transfer them to the waterline section line intersections. Then get the above and below measurements for the transom from the developed transom panels and transfer those to the waterline transom intersections.

Once that is done you can join all the intersections in fair curves and, Bob's your uncle, a developed panel.

 

Erase all the unnecessary lines and circles and you have the panel ready to be dimensioned.

It took longer to describe this than to do it.

Next time we'll take a look at developing twisted panels and V-bottoms