Thread: Wooden boat festival

Howdy,

A glossary - we did start doing one on the PDRacer website which was to be a general reference that anyone could look at.

http://homepage.mac.com/peterhyndman...ictionary.html

We know your problems and feel your pain!!!

But as a project it grew and grew until it became impossible - there was no chance of covering all the possibilities and it took so much writing to get it right and unambiguous. I would write, midge would read and send it back etc.

The question is - what is reasonable to have in a plan? I would love to have EVERYTHING but I am struggling to get things done now.

I think I have done a reasonable job of naming most parts as their making and fitting is described in the plan - so that leads people to understand the name of the part as they make it.

Also I try and state the cross section size of the piece the first time it is mentioned.

I have also tried to use terms consistently and not change them part way through - like it is easy to start calling a "sheer clamp" a "deck clamp". They are different in a traditionally built boat but in a glued one you use one piece of timber for both functions. It is very easy to make this type of mistake and I try very hard not to.

Sorry - but I don't know what to do apart from this.

I have though of diagrams - but do I show a part built boat at the stage they are looking at while building, or do I show a 3D picture of the boat as finished. I feel the second option would be MORE confusing (how does that end up there? Rather than just following the instructions and it ending up in the right place because I have worked it out properly for you). And the former means several drawings with names for each stage of the boat.

In the end people do have my email so if there is something ... they can ask.

Best wishes
Michael