Half Hull from the Front
![Color photograph of a wooden half hull, front view.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/francois-xavier-lachance-construction-navale_shipbuilding/wp-content/uploads/sites/78/2019/02/ExpoFXL_8b_demie-coquedeface_1000px.jpg)
Photo by Martin Fournier © 2018; Jean-François Lachance collection
This and the following photo, both of the same half hull, give a good idea of the model’s shape and the layered planks that, once taken apart, were used to trace a plan at scale.