25th WEGEMT School on Small Craft Technology

In this lecture the main types and characteristics of various types of small craft are presented. The lecture refers to low speed (motor driven) craft, high speed (advanced marine) vehicles, and sailing craft. The main and possibly only common characteristic of the great variety of small craft, presented herein, is the limited size in length (and indirectly displacement), of up to about LXVI = 50.O0rm, independently of the number of hulls involved assuming a specific vessel configuration. It is understood, that from the practical point of view, small craft, as presented herein, are within the scope of work of small shipyards and related industry. The variety of types involved requires special care in the selection of the proper design procedure, because of the non-uniformity of design requirements. The most important characteristics covered in the present lecture are: vessel overall concept, size, speed, transport capacity and horsepower requirement, behavior in a seaway and relative cost merits. On the basis of comparisons of advanced marine vehicles with conventional ships, conclusions and recommendations are made as to the possible. This publication represents a series of lecturers' papers, which were presented at a five-day course entitled Small Craft Technology presented at the National Technical University of Athens. Greece on Monday 6 to Saturday 11 October 1997. The course was organised by the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and was in part supported by the European Commission through the Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Program.

• Corporate Authors:

  WEGEMT

  c/o Royal Institution of Naval Architects, 10 Upper Belgrave Street
  London,   England  SW1X 8BQ
• Conference:
  • 25th WEGEMT School on Small Craft Technology
  • Location: Athens , Greece
  • Date: 1997-10-6 to 1997-10-11
• Publication Date: 1997-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: High speed craft; Hulls; Noise; Sailing ships; Small ships; Vibration; Water transportation
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01491887
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 3 2013 12:29PM