True Round
Metal Boat Building
The development of 'Bezier Design and Construction' is a result of my career in Architectural Metal Fabrication, CNC Programming, Sheetmetal pattern Development, and my studies at the 'Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology.
The metal True Round boat Building method that I am about to introduce, 'Bezier Chine Design and Construction', was developed entirely by the author. It is a design is a high-tech computer design method that blends well with the proven time-honored sheet-metal fabrication layout method know as 'Approximate Development', and is the backbone of 'Bezier Design and Construction'. There are No Artistic, Vague, or Obscure True Round metal boat building methods addressed.
All the components of the hull and deck structure are pre-engineered the entire hull structure, including the shell plating are predefined to fit seamlessly together.
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You may also find these other aspects of 'Bezier Design and Construction' on the Right Column - Interesting:
Check out the CatsPaw Dinghy - An entry level True Round Bezier design - Get Your feet wet and become a True Round metal boat builder.
The classic Day-sailor, Lighting Strike' designed to be constructed in both Steel and Aluminum - Why the weight of a displacement hull is is not the determing factor for the hulls speed, but the Length of the waterline. Followed by a Race between them via Velocity Prediction Software.
See a race between a double hard Chined redesigned to a true round hull (Yes it is possible) followed by a race between them via Velocity Predictions Software, sheeding light onto the long ask question. Is a true round hull faster than a Hard Chined hull?
Layout and fabricate of custom Hatches, Port Lights, and more.
The advances in the 'English Wheeling' method for forming True Round Shell Plating. |
Prototype Build
(The Bezier 12.5)
If this curvy classic aluminum design can be built using 'Bezier Design and Construction', then any other true round hull shape would certainly be a breeze.
Click on the below link (Hull Components) to see a preview of the Transverse Frames, Longintudinal Frames, and Shell Plate fabrication or (Building the Hull) for an overview of how the Hull is fabricated.
Traditionally, True Round Metal Hulls have been built using the 'English Wheel', however becoming proficient in the use of the 'English Wheel' for the building of a single True Round metal hull would require a Special kind of person.
There have been advance in 'English Wheeling', that many are not aware of that taken the mystic out of the process of 'English Wheeling'.
I therefore include those advances here.
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