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PLAN[COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION intersection of the See also:bow See also:plane tB with square station 2, and t2 is the See also:projection in the sheer of the intersection of See also:water-See also:line 2WL with the same bow plane. The water-lines and diagonals in the See also:half-breadth and the diagonals and bow and buttock lines in the sheer may thus be See also:drawn as See also:fair lines by the help of battens, and if the lines do not pass through all the points obtained by projection from the body plan, the sections in the latter are rubbed out and new ones obtained from the lines in the half-breadth. This See also:process should be repeated until the curves in both plans are fair and the intersections correspond accurately with one another as the projections of points in space. No See also:frame of the See also:ship, however, is made to the curves of these water and See also:diagonal lines, so that their true shapes are not required for any See also:practical purpose except fairing the body. For the whole Contracted length of the ship, except about three to four twentieths at method of each end, space and labour are therefore saved and greater faking. accuracy is ensured by using the contracted method of fairing.

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