Author(s)

G.J. Grigoropoulos & T.A. Loukakis

Abstract

A new systematic series of planing hull forms, with good characteristics with respect to both resistance and seakeeping is under development at the Laboratory for Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics of the National Technical University of Athens. Before the selection of the parent hull, five "equivalent" models with the same main particulars and different hull forms have been designed and tested for resistance and seakeeping. The seakeeping performance of three of these models, both in regular and random waves, is presented and discussed in the paper 1 Introduction The seakeeping performance of any sea-going vessel should be assessed with respect to the sea states its mission requires to be able to operate in. Hence, describing,

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