Acceptable Error on Ship Designs? Jeff Zeitlin (02 Apr 2018 00:32 UTC)
Re: [TML] Acceptable Error on Ship Designs? Kurt Feltenberger (02 Apr 2018 00:44 UTC)
Re: [TML] Acceptable Error on Ship Designs? Evyn MacDude (02 Apr 2018 17:47 UTC)
Re: [TML] Acceptable Error on Ship Designs? Postmark (02 Apr 2018 19:01 UTC)

Re: [TML] Acceptable Error on Ship Designs? Kurt Feltenberger 02 Apr 2018 00:43 UTC

On 4/1/2018 8:31 PM, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> Technically, I believe the rules don't actually admit any allowance for
> overage; a design that can't be brought below 101 tons must be treated as a
> 200-ton design. However, dating back to the LBB days, there's been a _de
> facto_ allowance; at the moment, I don't recall whether that allowance was
> 10% or 20%. Can someone enlighten me, please?

IIRC, the 10% gimme was for drawing deckplans, not for design purposes.

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