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I use a computer software programme called "Hullform v.8" for initial lines and calculations.

Designs are available as stock plans or custom design projects.

Prices quoted are in Australian Dollars. They include GST and Postage within Australia, except where noted for plans sold through Woodcraft Boats or Boatcraft Pacific, where postage is additional.

For postage outside Australia (by airmail) please add $15.00 Aust. to the price listed.

Payment is by cheque or money order within Australia. Outside of Australia payment should be by bank draft, Western Union or similar funds transfer.

Stock Plans

Almost all these plans consist of two or more drawings, which cover the lines, construction, arrangement and the rig for sailing craft. Many of the smaller vessels also have the mould stations and other items drawn out at full size as patterns or templates. In the case of larger vessels, a set of offsets is included. Most of the offset points are located on horizontal waterlines or vertical buttock lines to simplify drawing out the shape.

Instructions and material lists are not provided.

The plans are printed onto bond paper using a large commercial photocopier service, working from originals prepared in pencil on drafting film. This large photocopier format restricts plans to a maximum width of 841mm, so some large drawings for the full size mould stations have had to be cut into two pieces to allow them to be printed. The printed plans then need to be joined together again.

Plans are mailed folded in an envelope.

It may be possible to modify a stock plan, and where extra drawings are required a fee for the additional work will be applied and added to the stock plan fee.

The Australian Builders Plate

The National Marine Safety Committee has proposed an Australian Builders Plate, (ABP) which they plan to have adopted as legislation by each state from July of 2006.

To check these details and for current information go to the website www.nmsc.gov.au 

or ask your local waterways authority.

Drawings:

Typical examples

Jilly construction plan above, 7.0m Cat Boat construction plan below.

Clients interested in a custom design are invited to discuss their project first to assess its possibilities. Normal practice is to quote for a concept stage to develop the initial ideas, then a second quote for the final drawings.

The designer reserves the right to then include these completed plans in the portfolio of stock designs.

Two Pauline Fay plans, sail plan below, section above.

Below, a section plan of the 11.70m gaff ketch

Copyright allows one boat only to be built from each set of plans issued. A royalty fee, usually the same as the original stock plan fee, must be paid for any subsequent boats built from a set of plans that have been issued to a client.

The copyright to all the designs and drawings prepared by David Payne is retained by David Payne, unless specifically stated otherwise.

Documentation of historic vessels can be estimated or quoted for to different stages, depending upon the drawings required for each vessel.

Typical requirements are to measure the vessel as it exists and prepare an As Lifted Lines Plan. From this a Lines Plan with the lines faired on an evenly spaced grid is developed. The next stage is to prepare a Construction Plan, Arrangement Plan and Rig Plan (if needed), and an Outboard Profile Plan, all for the existing layout of the vessel. A subsequent stage is to prepare a second set of plans (lines, construction etc), of the same boat in another earlier configuration, based on research.

The Ninon, an historic launch at the Lady Denman Maritime Museum NSW