True Round
Metal Boat Building
Bezier Chine Design:
Existing books on True Round steel and aluminum metal boat building methods are vague and obscure, often referring to metal boat building methods that require artistic skills such as Line Heating, English Wheeling, and well placed hammering methods with nondescript names such as : 'Cupping', 'Compounding', 'Cramping', and other undefinable terms.
While 'Line Heating' and 'English Wheeling' are viable methods for professionals. These skills are beyond the average metal boat builder. Therefore, ultimately metal boat building books suggest that steel and aluminum true round hull forms are not worth the time and effort, unless you have the proceeding raw arcane and artistic like skills.
The steel and
aluminum True Round boat Building method that I am about to introduce, 'Bezier Chine Design and Construction',
was developed by metalsailboats.com. It is a high-tech computer design method that blends well with the proven
time-honored metal fabrication layout method know as 'Approximate Development'.
The build used to illustrate 'Bezier Chine Design and Construction' is a small, curvy, classic tumblehome design. If this curvy aluminum fabricated boat can be built using Bezier Chine Design and Construction then any other 'Bezier' true round hull shape would certainly be a breeze.
It is a design
and construction method that pre-engineered the entire boat structure. All
components, including the shell plating of the hull are predefined and can be
formed to fit seamlessly together.
There are no vague and obscure or artistic techniques involved in
construction.
The development of 'Bezier Chine 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.
'Bezier Chine Design and Construction' takes the arcane and artistic skills out of plating a True Round metal hull. Those skills are replaced with time honored sheet- metal fabrication methods use every day in the Metal Fabrication Industry!
Although I have built several plywood and hard chined steel designs, I had no experience building a true round metal hull. I have no arcane or artistic like skills. What I do have is a complete understanding of the theory of 'Approximate' Sheetmetal development. The Bezier 12.5 was my first aluminum true round build.
Most notable 'Bezier Construction’ is simple, consistent, and predictable.
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