Fast monohulls are currently in operation
as naval ships for near-shore and off-shore
patrol missions, as commercial work boats, as
private yachts and even, recently, as
commercial car/passenger ferries. In the latter
case their length and speed exceeds 100 m and
40 knot, respectively. Thus, it is worthwhile to
develop hull forms of this kind with improved
characteristics with respect to both calm water
resistance and seakeeping. This was the prime
scope of the new systematic series of highspeed
double-chine monohulls, with wide
transom and bottom warp, which is being
generated at NTUA.
In this paper the seakeeping operability
performance of the parent hull form of the
NTUA series, extrapolated to a 108-metre car /
passenger ferry and to a 65-metre passenger
vessel, are investigated. Experimental results
are compared with respective analytical results
based on strip theory and a time domain
method appropriate to planing hull forms.