Thank you for another enjoyable and accurately informative conversation, Dr. Batchvarov! I've only recently discovered your interesting series of videos and greatly appreciate your efforts producing them. As a long-lived life-long avocational maritime historian and consumer of maritime archeology, albeit primarily focused on the quite narrow subject matter of American small working craft and yachts, and, correspondingly, as a modeler of similar subjects, I find in you a kindred spirit. I haven't the time left in life to acquire another doctorate, but your video presentations cause me to fantasize about what my life would have been like had I been able to spend as much time in your classes as I did in those of my law professors. Certainly, I wouldn't have dozed during your lectures! Too often I've felt like a salmon swimming upstream in waters polluted by the current "kit modeling culture" and, I might even say, "reviled" by some for criticizing the sacrifice of academic standards of historical inquiry, research, and analysis on the altar of the Almighty Dollar by all too many kit marketers. I believe I am in good company, though, finding reassurance in Jean Boudriot's observation in his foreword to Bernard Frolich's "The Art of Ship Modeling," where he observes that to be a good ship modeler one must thoroughly immerse themselves in the historical maritime milieu rather than simply competently assembling parts according to a set of instructions. Your videos provide those who were not taught how to "access" that antiquated "information platform" called a "book" in an accessible digital format a valuable exposure to the academic consciousness of the maritime milieu Boudriot found prerequisite to serious ship modeling. This is not to say that ship model kits cannot serve as the "gateway drug" to what may for some become an excusable addiction, nor that well-executed high-quality kit models cannot be things of great beauty, but, to my way of thinking, the highest value of a ship model is in the history we can learn from studying it. Regardless of how many steps it may take to produce it, there's a world of difference between a "paint-by-numbers" version of the Mona Lisa and the real thing! This is, of course, a philosophical issue best further explored over a strong drink or three. With reference to your instant video, I thought a quotation from L. Francis Herreshoff in his book "The Commonsense of Yacht Design" regarding the origin of the conventional "east facing" orientation of naval architectural lines drawings might be of interest to you: "It is customary to draw the bow facing the right hand, or east side, of the drawing, and this custom came from making a model first with the stations laid off on its centerline reading from left to right, but when the model was turned over and laid on the drawing (to draw the pencil around to get the sheer and profile) then the station numbers read from right to left. Some designers have the yacht facing either way; my father (Nathaniel G. Herreshoff) did about as many one way as the other."

I have long appreciated the books by Howard I. Chapelle.

Thank you Dr.Batchvarov wishing you a enjoyable,interesting and productive field season.

Thank you very much for the info, It helps a lot with me building a model ship from scratch.

As always, thank you my friend!!! Well done!

Thank you, sir, Those bewildering lines (and their names) now make perfect sense.

Nice Cad rendition. Thanks for today's topic!

Ah, Prof Hawker--there is a fellow who knows his peas and carrots. More than passing familiar with H.I.Chappell, too. I still loft things in those "old fashioned" ways. It's why I struggle wuth Blender and SketckUp and always return to AutoCAD (my ACAD relationship going back to 1983 & grad school)

Please continue, sir. For me, you are explaining the equivalent of a Space Shuttle in that time. As an aside, some comments on why some shapes are bad sailors and others are good ones?

Never has being victimized been such a pleasant experience. Thank you once again for an enlightening lecture!

Thank you, as usual!

When did half modeling become a design tool? Good luck with your fieldwork. I am looking forward to any field footage you put out.

Thankyou.

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More, please !

Thank you so much for this nice explanation. I truly enjoy your videos, and they have become one of the highlights of my Sunday afternoons. Please allow me one question - when we are mentioning "the shape of the vessel", does that include the planking? I.e. as a shipwright (or model builder) one would have to subtract the thickness of the planks to derive the outer shape of the frames?

Thank you for the video. Curious what was the software you’ve used?

Thank you for bringing up this topic. Some 20 years ago I started creating CAD drawings for Chapman's Bellona frigate series, specifically the Camilla, but unfortunately lost access to AutoCAD which I was using for the task. Do you have any suggestion for software to use? Which software is used in the Video? At some stage, I'd like to pick up on this project again!

Will you do a video on masting?