A clear, step-by-step guide to the tricky art of lofting: turn a boat's design into a building plan.Aimed at traditional boat lovers, amateur DIY builders and restorers, this manual from Adlard Coles' Classic Boat series offers clear, step-by-step diagrams to enable anyone to build a boat of any size, whether power or sail.Lofting is an essential stage in the transition between designing and building a boat in order to turn the design plans into boat lines plans to measure off and build the full-size boat. The author has been teaching lofting to boatbuilding students for over 10 years, and has found that the key to understanding is visualization—hence the plethora of step-by-step diagrams in this book to assist the reader to grasp the concepts. Lofting a Boat will be welcomed by budding boatbuilders everywhere.