Jammersix
02-15-2014, 09:08 PM
I have another hobby, to soak up any dollars I have left from shooting. I race sloops.
To make a a long story short, one uses charts when one is sailing. One must update charts. One uses drafting equipment for this.
I have three drafting machines, that were state-of-the-art when I was in junior high school, in 1970. One is a Vemco, two are Universal Boardmasters.
No one who does drafting in business uses drafting machines, anyone with any sense uses CAD. The last architect grad student I talked to, about ten years ago, said that even in Architect school, he had to do exactly one drawing by hand. The rest was knowing how the different programs work, and knowing document control.
So drafting machines have gone the way of the buggy whips. However, they are still enormously handy for correcting paper charts, which still must be done by hand. If I had room on board, I'd have one aboard, too.
I've found scales for the Vemco, but I would like to get the Boardmasters back into action, too. Vemco lasted against the current, and finally went out of business just a couple months ago, so scales are still plentiful, but Universal Boardmaster went out of business almost forty years ago.
So my question here is this: does anyone here happen to have any parts for Universal Boardmaster drafting machines? In particular, does anyone have any scales?
To make a a long story short, one uses charts when one is sailing. One must update charts. One uses drafting equipment for this.
I have three drafting machines, that were state-of-the-art when I was in junior high school, in 1970. One is a Vemco, two are Universal Boardmasters.
No one who does drafting in business uses drafting machines, anyone with any sense uses CAD. The last architect grad student I talked to, about ten years ago, said that even in Architect school, he had to do exactly one drawing by hand. The rest was knowing how the different programs work, and knowing document control.
So drafting machines have gone the way of the buggy whips. However, they are still enormously handy for correcting paper charts, which still must be done by hand. If I had room on board, I'd have one aboard, too.
I've found scales for the Vemco, but I would like to get the Boardmasters back into action, too. Vemco lasted against the current, and finally went out of business just a couple months ago, so scales are still plentiful, but Universal Boardmaster went out of business almost forty years ago.
So my question here is this: does anyone here happen to have any parts for Universal Boardmaster drafting machines? In particular, does anyone have any scales?