How this site is made
Who makes it, how the drawings are generated, how every claim is checked, and what the site will not tell you.
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Who runs it
Boat Anatomy is a small independent reference site, made by a boat enthusiast from India and published under the site's own name. About says more about who that is. It is not a boating-safety course, not a buying guide, and not affiliated with any boat builder, dealer, course provider or government agency. It sells nothing and carries no affiliate links.
How the drawings are made
Every hull on the site is one table of numbers: the height of the keel, the sheer and the chine, the half-breadth of the deck and the chine, and the deadrise angle, each given at a few stations along the length. Code turns that table into a cross-section at any station. The profile, the plan and the body section are all projections of those same cross-sections, so the three views of a hull cannot disagree with each other. Automated tests check this for every hull, and check that every measurement is a finite number across its whole range.
Fittings, rigs and details are drawn from typical proportions by the same code. Nothing is traced, recoloured or simplified from a builder's lines, a course provider's diagram, an infographic or a 3D model. There are no photographs.
Each drawing is a teaching example. It shows what a term means on a typical boat; it is not a particular make or model, and it is not a design you could build from.
How claims are checked
Every fact on the site rests on at least one published source, and each source carries the date it was read and a short quote from it. Today that is 194 sources, all of them checked this way.
- A definition is never backed only by a builder, a dealer or an industry association.
- A trade-off is stated only as a tendency ("tends to", "usually") and names the kind of source that says it.
- A rule from the Code of Federal Regulations is cited to its section.
- Where sources disagree, the page says so.
Who checks the drawings
I check every drawing myself, against the definitions in its sources, before a page goes up: that each name points at the part the sources describe, that each measurement is taken where its definition says, and that the three views of a hull agree. The "checked" date in the stamp under each drawing is the date of that check. It moves only when the drawing is checked again.
What the site will not tell you
No label, angle or dimension on this site establishes how a boat rides, whether it is stable, how much it can carry, or whether it suits some water or some use. The site gives no speed, fuel or range predictions and no advice on loading beyond pointing at the boat's capacity plate. Hull speed is shown as the rule of thumb it is, with its limits printed beside it.
Corrections
If a drawing or a sentence is wrong, tell me. A correction changes the page and its "updated" date; nothing else moves that date. Every correction is listed here with its date and the page it changed.
Corrections so far: none.