Building Plank on Frame Ship Models

About this book

The plank-on-frame method is the pre-eminent ship modeling technique and this practical manual is the foremost guide to its intricacies. Taking as his example the two-masted sloop Cruiser of 1752 the author leads the shipwrights through every stage of building a model of the vessel from preliminary research and taking off lines to the actual construction of the hull fittings masting and rigging. Each step is illustrated with explanatory line drawings and photographs.