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SmallTugs LLC
PO Box 7147
Gloucester, MA 01930 USA
www.smalltugs.com
Copyright 2004 SmallTugs LLC, Gloucester, MA USA
Mal Low, Naval Architect
Please read this page before ordering plans or Tutorial Sets.
NOTE: As stated elsewhere in the
Tutorials, they are intended to be non-specific to a particular design. Therefore you may find information for other
hulls as well as your own. The sample drawings of hull
details (yellow sheets) in the Construction section are NOT intended to be
applicable to all hulls without exception.
They are included as examples of the type of construction detail previously
available to individual clients who purchased full price designs. However, most of the detail included here
can be applied to all hulls with some thought as to appropriateness and
scantling suitability for your vessel.
See also para. III of the Preface section of the Tutorial Set.
Quoted
from the FAQ section of the smalltugs.com web site:
# 4. Are there any restrictions on use of the FREE plans?: No, but as a personal favor to me (consider it a gentleman's agreement) I would like you to build only one hull from each set of plans obtained under this FREE plans arrangement. If you want to build two, or more, order a set of plans for each even if its the same design.
Also note that these plans, just as those obtained from any naval architect, are intended for the purchaser's use only. By copyright and other law you may not copy it, distribute it, or exchange the information I send you with any other party, by hard copy, digitally, or by any other means. This applies to the material in its original form and also in any derivative form whether added material is by you or a third party.
#17. When I scale the hull from the paper plan drawing
I get a different value in the Y direction than when I use the Offset Table,
why?: Because the Offset Table
is for steel and aluminum hulls and is the recommended set of offsets for any
material. The paper drawing is the
original design for wood and/or fiberglass construction. This is stated elsewhere in the Tutorial Set
too. The weight of metal hulls requires
a deeper hull form and that form also provides a drier ride for tug-yachts. (Read the White Paper re: steel hulls available
on the web site.)
#30. Sales Outside USA?: We have found that a client in the EU has difficulty presenting our free, and therefore
minimal detail, plan in order to get a comformance to current EU standards
and classes for self-built vessels. Our stock small hulls were, for the
most part, designed 40 odd years ago when such did not exist and so that
consideration was not part of the design process. While they most likely
do comply, we cannot certify to that for the reasons just stated. Therefore,
since we also cannot currently provide support, we discourage purchases by non-USA clients who expect such compliance to be included with the free plans. In addition please note #1, #2, #3, #10, and #28 of the FAQ.