Strother Scott

Yacht Club Drawings

 

What we bought

This is one of my earliest Early Yacht Club drawings.  A developer bought the nine acres next door and the Club bought an outlot in his proposed subdivision.  The drawing is simply a pdf of a survey as a layer, and some existing roads as bezier curves.  I have always had a hard time creating a gravel road, but I found a light brown hatch that seems to suffice.  And a different color — dashed —  line for the property lines, and a poor attempt, still not improved, to show shallow and deep water.  And then some added text.  The purpose was to have an illustration which would be placed in the newsletter explaining to the membership exactly what we had bought.

  

 

Architectural master plan

After we bought the land, an architect donated his services to give us a master plan for the combined old and new land.  He used pen and ink and magic markers to color in his drawing and gave us huge sheets of paper, which we were unable to use except in small meetings.  With his permission, we scanned them, placed the image in its approximate position on our underlying property — now lines in PowerCADD  — instead of the old survey scan. His plan envisioned a loop access road to the existing road.  We were better able to use this document on our website to show our members the great potential plans.

  

 

Clear land

A year later, I bought Lot 5 East of the Yacht Club with an agreement to relocate the road to make Lot 5 become a "waterfront lot".  This drawing was created by me and used for a "Land Disturbance Permit" by the site contractor who was going to clear in preparation for the road move.  Again nothing fancy, just using the Cloud tool, Text over a different scanned survey — prepared by the subdivision developer.  (Sorry, but I have a scale I drag around the drawings, and this screen shot showed it twice!)

  

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