"P.C." wrote in message
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Isn't that what is already prepared, with full-scale plans ?

Fairing lines to a scale on a drafting board or a sheet of plywood, it
"lofting the lines".

Full scale is the only way to do a full loft. Sometimes in a very large
vessel the loft will be to half scale so it will fit on the loft floor. The
main objective is to get the mold station to produce fair lines on the
finished hull. Adjusting the molds, after the fact is not the correct place
to find the errors.

I know that the OP was about a 16ft canoe. However the reason I jump in
about using a full loft is because so often a first time builder will look
for any reason or recommendation to skip the full loft and get started
turning wood into a boat. Unless the designer has taken the results of a
full loft (or the computer equivalent) and done the correction to the table
of offsets, then the offset table should only be trusted for the full loft.


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My opinion and experience. FWIW

Steve
s/v Good Intentions