The sets of plans that I've bought all state that they include a license "to
build one boat." Building three boats would be theft of two licenses. It's
more like buying an airplane ticket than buying a book.

Roger

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"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in message
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If you think it's ok to steal someone's work, then you are probably too
stupid to design the structural detail properly.

Criminals are, generally, deficient in their ability to reason, somehow.
With no respect for others as a result of faulty social thinking, they
demonstrate an inability to think correctly in other areas.

This usually has to do with some shortcoming in the assemblage of certain
other of their sentient organs. The only true salvation for these types
is for them to realize their imperfection, and ask for inspiration to
mend their ways. The Golden rule is all the guidance a reasonable person
needs. Would you want your life's work stolen and abused, modified and
destroyed, capitalized for profit, adulterated from a good design to one
that kills, using your once respected name?

The lines of a vessel are a compromise in engineering intended to balance
strength, efficiency, capacity, durability, and looks. The equation is
not a simple one.

Would you want to wear a cheap, stolen design knock off life jacket, from
inferior cheap materials using inferior cheap manufacture, to save a few
bucks while you top dance for the sharks? How would you feel if it was
your name stamped on such a Knakawf?

If you really want to design a decent boat yourself, you need to take a
bunch of courses in marine engineering.

You will have to pay for those courses too, purchasing the knowlege for
yourself from it's developers, unless you can reason it all out properly
yourself. Stealing a "look" which you will undoubtedly want to sell as
the original some day, sooner than later, if quality has to do with it,
is shameful, a sin and a crime.

Terry K


Terry,,, when someone buys a set of plans for a Roberts boat. Is there
anything wrong with building more than one boat with the same set of
plans?

I got to thinking ?? So, say three people split the cost of one set of
plans and start building three boats.

Is that wrong?

I have never built a boat. Are the plans like big paper that you lie on a
board and then mark the board and cut the board? In other words,,,, are
the plans a template? I just wonder what exactly plans look like?

If you know, please post ... curious