Hi Carl,
I noticed that you still lack a lines plan of NORLAND.
And as it isn't too much ado for me I felt free to take the side elevation (presumably from a general arrangements plan (GAP)) which you posted initially in this thread, and reconstruct a set of hull lines of NORLAND in DELFTship.
Then on hhvferry.com I discovered
some decks views (purportedly from the GAP).
And finally, from
this Wikipedia article on MV NORLAND I took her main dimensions.
I preferred to create my set of lines with her original dimensions as built, because according to this article and some photos that I viewed of her on shipspotting.com, she was lengthened in 1987 by a 20.5m midship section.
I think if a model boater has the additional required transportation capacity and thus wishes to build her in the lengthened version
that it won't be a too challenging task to supply a fitting midship section from the lines.
With regard to the reported beam I am not sure if that is her moulded breadth or her over all breadth, including the for ferry vessels typical fenders.
Anyway, any deviations resulting from this I consider not to be conspicuous on a model.
The proportions seem to look balanced.
Thus I took these dimensions:
Lpp........138.00 m
B..............25.20 m
T................6.02 m
About the lower knuckle line in depth of the car deck I am not sure how far to the bow it extends.
I only had very few pictures from shipspotting.com as a reference which were quite shady in this area of the fore ship.
On those it looked to me that the knuckle line didn't have a visible crease edge forming influence any more.
However, if you are interested I could supply you with my resulting DELFTship (DS) fbm data file.
With it you could download the free version of DS and further improve or correct my set of lines if your reference material shows better evidence.
Beyond, you can create sections (i.e. frames, waterlines, buttocks, diagonals) at virtually any point of the hull in any required spacing.
You could also discard all the sections that I had set without affecting the shape of the hull.
I think this is an invaluable feature of digitized hull lines for any model boater as you can arrange e.g. frames where your model construction would require them.
Here I will only post the body plan and compound lines plan that DS created of my work.
If you want to see more (e.g. 3D model preview shots) see
my posting in my thread on our German forum.
Regards
Ralph
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