A preliminary design of catamaran for fishing vessel of 100 GT

Abstract

This study is aim to establish a preliminary stage design of a catamaran for fishing vessel of 100 gross tonnage in technically. The fishing vessel design has to be suitable with the environment of Malaysian fishery and feasible to operate in Malaysia waters. Three desired ship's length are fixed as the primary independent variable in the design project and the others correlation parameters are thus contribute to achieve the gross tonnage as required. Evaluate the performance for three difference catamaran of fishing vessel design in the influence of resistance, powering requirement and stability condition. The evaluations of the performance for three new designs of fishing vessels use the Maxsurf Pro, Hullspeed and Hydromax software. The lines plan and general arrangement plan will be generated from the Maxsurf and AutoCAD. The preliminary stage of fishing vessel design methods and process will be discussed detailed in this project study. Finally in this paper, be found the most suitable dimension of the selected catamaran which are more stable, less power requirement due to less hull resistance were determined by comparing the results obtained.