I did a previous post on Fred Martin, a naval architect working out of mostly Wisconsin at the turn of the last century. Here are a couple of Fred Martin drawings illustrating a completed frame for a 32 foot clipper hull. The frame is about to be knocked down for transport to another shop for reassembly and sheathing at another shop and I assume the drawings are an assembly aid. Seems a lot of extra labour, but it must have made sense in the circumstances.
I do like the typical hull layout drawing shown below. Everything a guy would need to build it I guess, but I don't have the translation skills to really understand them, even if I wanted to build one.
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That staircase alongside the frame probably leads to a lofting room, where full-size plans would be laid out on the floor and dimensions would be checked as construction proceeded.
Is it possible that "knocked down" means knocked down off it's supports, as opposed to actually disassembling it?
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