References

Specific references required are normally stated in the electronic worksheets.

Read the articles "Understanding Stability" and "Understanding Trim" to get a foundational understanding of how to use many of these templates. This article describes fundamental concepts that must be grasped for doing effective stability calculations. It cover's the vessel's weight contribution, the vessel's shape (hydrostatic) contribution and how to tie these two sets of input together for determining transverse stability. The article is for transverse stability but the concepts do carry over into longitudinal stability.

The following are some general references that are recommended for background preparation.

Title 46 Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 170-174, Subchapter S - Stability

NAVIGATION AND VESSEL INSPECTION CIRCULAR NO. 8-87 With Change 1: Notes on Design, Construction, Inspection and Repair of Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) Vessels

NAVIGATION AND VESSEL INSPECTION CIRCULAR NO. 11-80: Structural Plan Review Guidelines for Aluminum Small Passenger Vessel

NAVIGATION AND VESSEL INSPECTION CIRCULAR NO. 12-83: Intact Stability for Towing and Fishing Vessels: Research Results

MSC Guidelines for Review of Stability for Uninspected Tugboats (C)

MSC Marine Technical Note - MTN 01-01 Towline Pull Criteria for Vessels Equipped with Z Drives, dated September 17, 2001.

Guide to Sound Ship Structures, by Amelio D'Arcangelo. This excellent reference is out of print, but it is sometimes available used on eBay.

Marine Design Manual for Fiberglass Reinforced Plastics, by Gibbs & Cox. This reference is out of print, but it is sometimes available used on eBay.

A. I. S. C. Manual of Steel Construction, great source for area properties (area, centroids, moments of inertia and section modulus) of various structural sections.

Common Mistakes Made in the Design of Aluminum Weldments, by Frank Armao, Senior Application Engineer, The Lincoln Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio.

Fiberglass Boat Design & Construction, Robert Scott. This reference is available online from the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

Miscellaneous References involving classification society rules, AutoCAD, Excel, MathCAD and AutoCAD. You can get additional information on these references without buying them by first clicking on the "Buy from Amazon.com" button then clicking on the text "read more" in the window that pops up.

	Principles of Naval Architecture, Volume I, by Lewis
	Applied Naval Architecture, by Zulaby
	Introduction to Naval Architecture, by Tupper
	Introduction to Naval Architecture, by Gilmer
	Nature of Boats, by Dave Gerr
	Principles of Yacht Design, by Larson & Eliasson
	Propeller Handbook, by Dave Gerr
	Elements of Boat Strength, by Dave Gerr
	Basic Ship Theory, Volume I, by Rawson and Tupper
	Basic Ship Theory, Volume II, by Rawson & Tupper
	MathCAD 2001 I Premium, by MathSoft
	MathCAD 6 Professional, by MathSoft
	Office XP Professional Special Edition, by Microsoft
	Excel, by Microsoft
	Works 2003, with Word & Picture It, by Microsoft
	DesignCAD 3D Max, by Upperspace
	TurboCAD 8 Professional, by IMSI
	AutoCAD LT 2002, by AutoDesk

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Hullform, Blue Peter Marine Systems, Pty. This firm offers reasonable priced software that generates data for Curves of Form, Cross Curves of Stability and Curves of Statical Stability. It also can be used to design hull shapes, calculate powering requirements, generate hull expansions and for many other things. There is a 9S version for students it is free. Hullform 9S works in Win 95+ and in Linux. Output from this program can be input directly into Hawaii Marine Templates. This Hullform software is user friendly and has a lot of bells and whistles.