The first word that comes to mind in terms of a boat’s performance is almost always horsepower. But as racetrack punters know, there are “horses for courses.” Some horses run best on a dry track, some ...

Van Oord asked MARIN to perform a full assessment of the hull lines of its new hopper dredger. Twin gondola aft bodies have been successfully applied to hopper dredgers for many years. This is usually ...

A general design rule is that the longer the waterline, the higher the hull s speed potential. Perhaps the most important change when a boat is heeled is the length of the hull in the water, which is ...