Joe Feager

Weighing in is needed. I was trying to make and educated? guess.

OK, I see that frame 1 does have a "ridge" where the deck beam sits. Makes sense to keep an air space between the skin and the stern top. That matches the picture on page 30, now to find a coordinate. Since the Z coord at 0 for 5'4"-4'4 1/2"-2'8" frames increases to the stern then the Z dimension for frame 1'0" should be higher than on frame 2' 8". Proportionally this works out to just a shade less than 4/16" generating a Z coord of 8 10/16" at the center of the frame. Comments?

Thanks, I'll check them out. I have a couple online banjo mates down your way.

Jeff, I received both your books about a month ago. I'm interested in building the Curlew but after reading some other posts I wonder if permissions were given with the purchase of the book. Lofting from your coordinates doesn't bother me, except I need larger paper after frame 2'8". It would be a good learning experience for me. Also, in trying to loft frame 1'0" I got confused because while on pg 30 of your book you show a deck beam no coordinates were shown in the table. Comparing the stern top to the frame it looks as though flat across the top is correct but that also conflicts with pg 30 as the picture shows a ridge at center top. Let me know whether or not to proceed and I'll go from there. Joe