[x_section style=”margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px; “][x_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=”” style=”margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/2″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_image type=”none” src=”http://svseeker.com/images/sailboat/First%20Side.JPG” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][/x_column][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/2″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_text]The Origami hull is a hull formed by folding steel into the shape of a hull. The hull plates are first butt welded to form a two large flat plates. Each of the two larger plates will be formed into one half of the hull from bow to stern. [/x_text][/x_column][/x_row][x_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=”” style=”margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/2″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_text] To form each side, darts are cut into the plate and the gaps pulled together, bending the plate into it’s three dimensional shape. When both sides of the hull are completed they are brought together and welded down the keel.
[/x_text][/x_column][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/2″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_image type=”none” src=”http://svseeker.com/images/sailboat/Bow%20Closing%20Up.JPG” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][/x_column][/x_row][/x_section][x_section style=”margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 45px 0px 45px 0px; “][x_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=”” style=”margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_image type=”thumbnail” src=”http://svseeker.com/images/sailboat/Origamiboat_model_pattern.gif” alt=”” link=”true” href=”” title=”” target=”blank” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][x_text]Here is an example of an Origami Boat pattern for a single chine hull. You can download and print the large image of the pattern, then cut out the pieces and tape it together to see how the process works. We did this several times.
See Paul’s 65ft Origami for an example of how a large origami hull is built.[/x_text][/x_column][/x_row][/x_section][x_section style=”margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=”” style=”margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_custom_headline level=”h1″ looks_like=”h3″ accent=”false”]Want To Lean More about Origami Boat Building?[/x_custom_headline][x_text]On Alex Christie’s web site, Origamiboats: The Art of Frameless Steel Boatbuilding, you can find more information and purchase a video and book that covers the origami building process in detail. You can also join the Yahoo group, Origamiboats, as well as a FaceBook group Origamiboats — Frameless Steel Yachts. You can also download a self extracting (zip) compressed file of all of the messages on the Yahoo group between it’s creation and Jan of 2010: Yahoo_Origamboat_Archive_Feb2000-Jan2010.exe. Thanks to Ben Okopnik for putting that together. Ben also keeps an updated, online searchable archive: http://okopnik.com/origami.[/x_text][/x_column][/x_row][/x_section][x_section style=”margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” bg_color=”” style=”margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_column bg_color=”” type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; “][x_custom_headline level=”h2″ looks_like=”h3″ accent=”false”]Still hungry for more? [/x_custom_headline][x_text]theboat.smugmug.com/Boats/Kim — Kim’s 26′ Swain photo journal.
www.sv-mom.com — A completed project with lots of photos and documentation.
www.harderwoods.com/pipedocs.html Online Pipe Fitting Templates[/x_text][/x_column][/x_row][/x_section]