Smoothly capping the bow of a lofted boat hull

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By the way, another video I posted a few weeks ago (“Deadrise and Hull Shape in Rhino Grasshopper”) shows how fair NURBS curves can be created using only a few points instead of many from offsets.

Curve Manipulation with Graph mapper

The loft is very clean, much more than the other way which has many “stress lines” visible. Another benefit of NURBS curves, I guess. By the way, I am familiar with how to use NURBS curves like this from double-ended boat design, where you want tangents between bow and stern. [proa21m_2021Oct29d-l] P.S. I was referring to tangents visible in top view but here is an old video that demonstrates a way to get a “fair” NURBS curve and resulting hull cross-section by moving control points along …