Supplemental

 Boat Design

Course details

Start date:	01/11/2011
Course dates:	January 11-March 24
Course days:	Tuesday, Thursday
Course times:	5:30pm-8:30pm
Term:	Winter
Length:	22 days
Class limit:	15
Tuition:	$595 $100 Deposit
Tools/Materials:
Materials cost:
Skill level:	All
Location:	NWSWB Port Hadlock Heritage Campus
Instructor(s):	David Blessing

Prerequisite(s)

None

Education goal

To help boatbuilding students understand the relationship between a vessel’s form, its construction and its function at sea and to teach basic practical design skills and formulas.

Description

The design course will introduce students to the art and science of boat and yacht design. Students will study theory and engage in practical lab exercises with the goal of developing basic skills in naval architecture. The emphasis in this 66-hour course is in understanding the parameters of vessel design and gaining familiarity with common calculations and design ratios and co-efficients.

Course outline

• PART I - THEORY and LECTURES:
  
  Tradition and Aesthetics
  - Assessing Function
  - Seaworthiness
  - Motion
  - Stability
  
  Graphic Measurements
  - Displacement, volume, area and moments
  - Weight and center of gravity
  - Balance and trim
  - Righting and heeling moments, stability, waterplane
  - Wetted surface and lateral area
  
  Understanding Shape
  - Proportion, elements of form
  - Curves of areas
  - Similitude of scale
  
  Determining the Structure
  - Materials
  - Scantlings
  - Tradition vs. high tech
  
  PART II: LAB:
  
  Lab Exercies: Graphic Methods of finding Center of Effort, Center of Lateral Resistance and Trim
  
  Tank Tests
  
  Design Project

Additional resources

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Special instructions

For further information contact

Student Services Administrator
(360) 385-4948
courses@nwboatschool.org