Sailing and Surveying a Dublin Bay Water Wag

Cathy MacAleavy very kindly gave us a talk on clinker boatbuilding, Shannon One Design and Water wag at the National Yacht Club on the 17th September. Afterwards we surveyed an almost 100 year old wag for the sake of making a half model while Cathy took people for introductory sails around the harbour.

Part of the first exercise is to prepare measured surveys of the Water wag and the Shannon One Design, these will be worked up into scaled drawings and half models.

Requirements:

Name and type of boat

Scale (+scale bar)

Waterline

Name of people involved in surveying and drawing

Title of each section  ‘Bodyplan’ ‘Half breadth plan’ etc

Label significant lines – Line of Gunwhale

Label significant elements, transom, stem, centreboard casing, rudder, good as a way of remembering parts of the boat.

Notes on materials (refer photos)

Notes on materials,

Notes on number of planks, ribs

Notes on thicknesses

Notes on the history of the boat, age etc

Examples of well drawn lines plans can be found in Uffa Fox books provided, as above from The Best of Uffa.