What is a linesplan of ship's hull?

Question

Can somebody provide a linesplan?

Answer 1

It is a drawing of hull shape with the stations . When they build a frame to build a boat on stations are every 2 feet. The line plan is drawn on those stations.

Answer 2

A lines plan is the "blue print" for a ship's hull. In order to accurately portray the shape of the hull three different views are used - the plan view, the profile and the buttocks. The plan view is the one looking down at the ship from above - the profile is the view from the side and the buttocks view is the lines looking from the bow. The buttocks plan usually has the forward lines on the right and the aft lines on the left of the center line of the view. (It gets pretty messy trying to stack all the lines.) http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/shipplan.htm - The second picture on this page is a buttocks plan view.

This page has all three views for a vessel, but isn't very detailed. http://www.all-model.com/Campbell/5.html If you have a real need for actual detailed plans, you should be able to get a reproduction from a marine museum. (Or a Naval Architecture student, if you aren't concerned with actually being able to construct the vessel. I know that Webb Institute requires the students to do a large ship design project, I believe all other schools' programs do as well.)