A half hull model ship (also known as a "half hull" or "half ship") is a
wooden model ship featuring only one half of a boat's
hull
Hull may refer to:
Structures
* The hull of an armored fighting vehicle, housing the chassis
* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
* Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a sea-going craft
* Submarine hull
Ma ...
without
rigging
Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support and control a sailing ship or sail boat's masts and sails. ''Standing rigging'' is the fixed rigging that supports masts including shrouds and stays. ''Running rigg ...
or other fixtures.
Background
Prior to the twentieth century, half hull model ships were constructed by
shipwrights
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. In modern times, it normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces i ...
as a means of planning a ship's design and
sheer and ensuring that the ship would be
symmetrical
Symmetry () in everyday life refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. In mathematics, the term has a more precise definition and is usually used to refer to an object that is invariant under some transformations ...
. The half hulls were mounted on a board and were exact
scale replicas of the actual ship's hull. With the advent of computer design, half hulls are now built as decorative
nautical art and constructed after a ship is completed.
["Half-Hull Modeling," (The Apprenticeshop, Bath, ME USA:1980)]
See also
*
Wooden model ship
*
Marine Art
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main Sea in culture, inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the seaâ ...
References
External links
Half Hull Boat Modelling:An Old Art Turned Full Circle
Model boats
Model
A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin , .
Models can be divided in ...
Marine art
Ship design
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