copy "Racer Evans" wooden boat lines / hull dimensions?

what you're thinking of is called a joggle stick & it's used more for internal fitout than the taking off of the lines.

The only way I can think of (low tech) of taking the lines off a small hull would be to set the hull up upside down, levelled both ways & have a 14' long straight flat horizontal wooden (or steel) rail running parallel with the keel set just past the max beam on one side & just above it.. Mark this at appropriate intervals (say 1') & use a vertical post suspended from it moved to each mark, & measurements to the hull taken at marked vertical intervals. Record your measurements in a table, adjust the measurements to get the zero references you want (centreline?)

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the term you are looking for is "taking off boat lines", which if you enter into search, gives a hatful of answers.

and yes, using a 'half Christmas tree thinghee' is one way to do it.....I'll let you discover how by following up your search results.....just be excruciatingly careful in taking numbers, an when it's time to draw it all out, " a fair curve supersedes any given measurement".

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