Antioch Widebeam

[F Tuke]

Hello,

 

I’m trying to track down Robert Bowes, who ran Culture Boats between 2008 and 2011 in Liverpool. I own one of his boats and I'm hoping to locate the original design blueprints.

 

Does anyone know if he’s still around, or have any idea how I might contact him? 

 

Thanks you!

[David Mack]

You are assuming there were original design blueprints! 

I suspect quite a few boatbuilders more or less made it up as they went along, with nothing more than a few sketch plans, and maybe templates to cut out the more intricate shaped plates around the bow and stern.

[MtB]

The term "Blueprints" is mainly used by film directors and fiction authors.

 

I worked in various drawing offices for several years in a previous life and in those, we just called them "Drawings"!

 

I agree with David, most boat shells will have been made up up using full sized templates for the parts in the clever bits at each end, and probably nothing more than a Mk1 eyeball and a tape measure for the straight bits.

 

 

[David Mack]

12 minutes ago, MtB said:

The term "Blueprints" is mainly used by film directors and fiction authors.

 

I worked in various drawing offices for several years in a previous life and in those, we just called them "Drawings"!

The blueprint process was invented in 1842. An original drawing - ink on translucent tracing paper - was laid on chemically treated paper and exposed to light. Where the paper was exposed the chemical turned dark blue, unexposed areas remained white. Hence the copy had white lines on a blue background - a "blueprint". From the 1940s this process was superseded by dieline or diazo printing, which was a similar process but with a chemical base that turned white on exposure to light leaving dark blue or black on the unexposed areas.

From the 1990s this in turn was superseded by large format xerography (photocopying), and later by direct printing from CAD.

But the term "blueprint" remains in more general use for plans, but not so often for actual drawings.

 

[carlt]

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[David Mack]

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