Ah, that's a good question. The answer can't be given in a paragraph
or two. I designed and built a stitch and glue boat after reading a
book by Sam Devlin. After making some sketches, the next step is to
make a half hull scale model. Then use mylar film to trace the panels.
Then scale up the dimensions, and build another larger full hull model
and test it, or if you've got the guts (or are crazy), just scale it up
to full size and build it. I have a webpage on my boat, The
Peregrine. Check it out:

http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/edaskew/peregrine.html

Here's the link to Devlin's book, "Devlin's Boatbuilding: How to Build
Any Boat the Stitch-and-Glue Way" on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

Ed.


Jim Newell wrote:
Hi,

I was wondering.....

If you design a boat (glue and stitch in this case), how do you develop the
shapes to cut out of plywood?

I realize that there is software to do this, but...how was it done before
computers?

I thought of making a model to work out the shapes, but short of this, I am
perplexed.

Thanks,
Jim