Concept to Reality
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Building the hull
Deck details and masts
Rigging and Sails
Shipping
Maintenance
Design Stage 1
We can build a ship from plans, paintings, photographs, videos or drawings supplied by you, in either paper or electronic form as frequently occurs, or we can research a historic vessel from a particular era and/or geographic location.
We start with designing a computer model of the hull using the latest in Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology. Geometry such as the lines and sections shown below, are taken from the available plans and drawings, or extrapolated from paintings or photographs. Sometimes we have to piece the puzzle together from bits and scraps of historical information.
Complex curves and angles can be solved before any real work is done, a luxury the original shipwrights would have loved to have. Scale is easily manipulated on the computer, most of our models exist in our database at full scale.
