Drawing progress

Every day I have been adding to, adjusting and correcting my CAD drawing of Peggy. I have been concentrating wholly on the interior so far. 

I reached a major milestone today when I finished drawing every timber on the inside of the boat and was able to put the results together with the image of the hull exterior made for me in 2012 by Martin Cooper (then of Conservation Technologies, Liverpool and now Lynton Lasers, Wilmslow, Cheshire). 

Progress in the CAD drawing of Peggy, Friday 17th April 2020

Working from home....

Here on the Isle of Man controls to contain the spread of the coronavirus have been pretty draconian and I, in common with so many others, am forced to work from home. Turning the situation to my advantage I am taking the opportunity to complete the CAD (computer aided design) drawing of Peggy. The drawing is in three dimensions and will show each individual timber from which Peggy is made. Working from 3D scans of the boat each piece has to be drawn with lines which can then be used to create a virtual image of it.

This is a view of Peggy's interior. It's from a 3D image on the computer.

This is the same view showing my 3D CAD drawing of some of the timbers

All this is very laborious, and until the pandemic hit us I was struggling to find the time to complete it. But why, you may ask, am I bothering?
The CAD model of Peggy will be accurate (if somewhat rationalised) and it will be useful for two really important pieces of work. One is the reconstruction of Peggy's rig and her original form (and original rig too). We still don't really know much about this. The second piece of work is to explore how she may have handled. For this we can put the CAD model in a simulation.