Getting Startedįirst, you should read the manual, because it will help you get used to the concepts used in the program. And if we’re lucky, I can imagine a future where sailing canoes once again grace many lakes, ponds, and rivers where I like to paddle. I can imagine a future where when around the campfire, our thoughts and discussions go back to the classic designs of the late 1800s and early 1900s carrying us away to a time when sailing canoes dominated the scenery with their graceful sails and flowing lines. Simply, it’s a really good way to see some of the old Rushton designs that Nessmuk paddled (This canoe isn’t a Rushton design, but the Vesper was built by Rushton.), and it’s pretty fun to see these old boats become 3D representations, but also by studying the hydrostatics and resistance numbers of the old designs we can learn from them, and, hopefully, gain a greater appreciation of canoes and kayaks in general. Notus Linesplan Why Do This? What Does it Have to Do with Lightweight Canoeing and Kayaking? Most of the tutorial was posted originally on the Canadain Canoe Routes Forum. And also included with this tutorial is a handy excel spreadsheet to help with the conversion of offsets to a readable format for Free!Ship. You will also find the file that I used to input the offsets, and the final two versions of the Notus in Free!Ship format. What follows is a set-by step account of how I translated the Notus offsets into Free!Ship, and then added a deck, cockpit, and sails. So, in order to try out Martijn van Engeland’s FREE!Ship’s ability to import offsets, I decided to use Notus.

So, I figured that why not combine both my new found interest and a newly found boat design program. It has some of the most striking lines of any sailing canoe from that period.Īlthough I’ve looked at these canoes before, I’m a relatively new convert to loving these designs, and I hope to learn as much as I can about this period, and I recently found out about FREE!Ship. It was a refinement of another canoe, the Vesper. The Notus beckons back to a simpler time, a time when racing sailing canoes were/was all the rage, and people attended to these poor person’s yachts with all the love and tenderness, as they would have spent on massive sailing ship.

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