New Page “How to Read a Ship Plan”

Novice or Expert You Can Learn From Our Page

On How to Read a Ship Plan

There’s a huge amount of information in that spaghetti bowl of lines in a ship plan, and to truly understand a ship, you have to understand how to interpret that information.

It requires all those lines to accurately depict a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional piece of paper. Once you learn what those lines are, and how each line on one plan view is also depicted in the other two, you will not only be able to envision the shape of a ship’s hull, you can easily plan how to build a scale model of it.

Whether you are a novice or an expert you can learn something from our page “How to Read a Ship Plan” that ties all those loose ends together.

Books Available From The Model Shipwright

Souvenirs de Marine François-Edmond Pâris, ship plans
Selected Plates from
Souvenirs de Marine by
François-Edmond Pâris

We Have to pay the bills, so here’s an ad:


Leave a Reply