Error on Melanesia Plans

[Rich Young]

This one cost me a lot of brain power before I figured it out, so I'm posting here in hopes it will save another Melanesia builder a headache.

The Imperial (inches) figure given for the side panel depth at the second station line forward of the center on the Melanesia is incorrect.  It's listed as 13 and 3/16 inches, but when lofting the curve, that point sits well off the line.  It turns out that the metric dimension, 351mm, corresponds to 13 and 13/16 inches, a difference of 5/8 inch or roughly 16mm. 

One more reason to switch to the metric system....

[Geminidawn]

It's a common occurance when building boats from a table of offsets. I was thought the lofting rule, "If it looks right it probably is, if it dosen't, correct it" The bigger a boat you build the greater margin for error but it's nothing that a good fairing batten can't sort out.

[Rich Young]

Yeah, I'm not upset about it.  I just thought there should be some record of it somewhere for the next guy to notice something's not right.

[Nathan Stanley]

Thanks for the info. Just got my plans, 752. The error is on sheet number 2. Here's a picture for the newer folks, like myself.