draft

Hi there, I was wondering how ship designers would calculate things such as draft and different coefficients of form (such as block coefficient) during the design stage, before the ship would be set in the water. Does anyone know what formulas would be used? Thanks.

Hi there, I am seeking the wisdom of the forum.. I am trying to develop an excel based, counter ballast calculator for a small workboat. The boat has a transom mounted, fixed lifting frame (lifting on the centerline). The lifted load and the counter ballast (at bow) lcg, vcg, tcg are fixed...

Cheers everyone, trying to get my coefficients defined in Maxsurf for my fin keel sloop. However, I would like to exclude the appendages for this purpose setting the draft as the canoe body's one. But the software only gives a bunch of options that dont include defining it manually. I imported...

My thoughts tend towards shallow draft sail cats intended for liveaboard at shallow anchorages. I’ve always thought of low draft as a safety feature, more likely to ride over or avoid submerged objects. A naval architect (name escapes me at the moment) on YouTube was talking about the risks of...

Hello everybody, Does any one know where can I find the navigational characteristics for the River Seine? I'm interested to find out the air draft and deep draft limitations. I did find a map from 2012, but somehow I doubt about its precision taking into account that we are in 2018. On this...