Hi all

I am contemplating making a kayak which will need a mould, but before i make the mould i want to design the shape of the hull so i can judge the waterline based on the weight of the boat and paddler.

Does anybody know of any software (hopefully free) where i can try different shapes without having to make a mould and hope i got my sums correct?

cheers

I've never seen anything that'll do this.  From my experience (squirt) you make your plug a bit on the big side and then cut the mouldings accordingly.  You can gaffer tape the hull and deck together and get a reasonable amount of time to assess waterline. 

There's loads of guides online for the squirt boats.  Try looking at the urge from the US.

thanks FLD will do.

Hi,

There is a free (although a donation is appreciated) program downloadable from blueheronkayaks.com called kayak foundry. It was created for designing sea kayaks but works for others just as well, one of my friends made a really nice surf boat using this software,

Donnacha.

If you can get me an IGES or 3D file (that I can open in Solidworks), I could run it through the Maxsurf suite.