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Baby's First-And-A-Half Portrait
Feb. 13th, 2011 05:40 pmI had Binturong all drawn out, and then I was reading a kayak book last night and it mentioned that the center of lateral area (the underwater cross sectional area of the boat seen from the side) should be behind the paddler (thus, behind the center of buoyancy).
When I fired up Bearboat and checked Binturong--oops, it wasn't. I thought the kayak book had a good, plausible argument for why this should be so, so I tweaked the Binturong design some more to move the CLA behind the center of buoyancy.
Meaning, of course, the station drawings I had just spent six hours producing from offsets were, ah, out of date. Well, better six hours wasted than six months if I actually build the design and then don't like it. New offsets, and off to Carson-Newman to say "I know I said I was done using the table but..." (except not really, they let me just come in and use it; I don't have to ask every time.)
New portrait half-finished. I'm getting better with practice. Go me.
When I fired up Bearboat and checked Binturong--oops, it wasn't. I thought the kayak book had a good, plausible argument for why this should be so, so I tweaked the Binturong design some more to move the CLA behind the center of buoyancy.
Meaning, of course, the station drawings I had just spent six hours producing from offsets were, ah, out of date. Well, better six hours wasted than six months if I actually build the design and then don't like it. New offsets, and off to Carson-Newman to say "I know I said I was done using the table but..." (except not really, they let me just come in and use it; I don't have to ask every time.)
New portrait half-finished. I'm getting better with practice. Go me.
