# Naval Architecture **URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/c/engineering/naval-architecture/55.md [Latest](https://forum.gcaptain.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.gcaptain.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.gcaptain.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Naval Architecture category](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/about-the-naval-architecture-category/61)
**Author:** [@system](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/about-the-naval-architecture-category/61 "2017-02-18T12:41:58Z")
--- ## [Ships of the future](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ships-of-the-future/71883)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ships-of-the-future/71883 "2026-02-17T17:16:02Z")
Want to have a say so on how ships will look and operate by 2035?: To have your say takes as little as two minutes to vote, and there is no registration required. To vote, click here. --- ## [\[Technical Architecture\] S.K.O.O.G. SCSL: Industrial-Scale Atmospheric Water Generation (Open Source)](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/technical-architecture-s-k-o-o-g-scsl-industrial-scale-atmospheric-water-generation-open-source/74206)
**Author:** [@GoranSkoog](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/GoranSkoog)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/technical-architecture-s-k-o-o-g-scsl-industrial-scale-atmospheric-water-generation-open-source/74206 "2026-02-10T16:39:45Z")
To the Naval Architecture Community, I am presenting a Defined Engineering Architecture for a biomimetic offshore infrastructure designed to extract freshwater directly from the air. With 3.6 billion people currently la… --- ## [Maintenance Plans for Fuel Tanks and lines on ships](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/maintenance-plans-for-fuel-tanks-and-lines-on-ships/73149)
**Author:** [@cchick001](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cchick001)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/maintenance-plans-for-fuel-tanks-and-lines-on-ships/73149 "2025-08-15T16:39:19Z")
Anyone have access to a formal maintenance plan for vessel Fuel tanks and lines? It’s for a good cause (would be applying it to something non-vessel related but for a program that desperately needs it) --- ## [Future Ship Joint Innovation center open in Shanghai](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/future-ship-joint-innovation-center-open-in-shanghai/66459)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/future-ship-joint-innovation-center-open-in-shanghai/66459 "2025-06-12T12:27:39Z")
--- ## [What is this?](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/what-is-this/69745)
**Author:** [@danddmiller](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/danddmiller)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 11, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/what-is-this/69745 "2024-07-11T15:17:15Z")
--- ## [Ship designing before the age of computers](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ship-designing-before-the-age-of-computers/66267)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ship-designing-before-the-age-of-computers/66267 "2023-06-07T20:56:52Z")
Presume there are some “old timers” here that remember those far away times?: --- ## [Who is naval architect of Carnival Jubilee Cruise?](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/who-is-naval-architect-of-carnival-jubilee-cruise/67201)
**Author:** [@ryandp](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ryandp)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/who-is-naval-architect-of-carnival-jubilee-cruise/67201 "2023-09-25T02:52:48Z")
Hi everyone!, im looking for naval architect behind the newest Carnival Cruise “Jubilee” that made in Jos L meyer, Germany --- ## [Retrofitting an Outrigger Canoe on a Steel Vessel](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/retrofitting-an-outrigger-canoe-on-a-steel-vessel/67137)
**Author:** [@aesir.v](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/aesir.v)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/retrofitting-an-outrigger-canoe-on-a-steel-vessel/67137 "2023-09-24T15:52:37Z")
I have a client who wants to fit an Outrigger Canoe made of Fiberglass on the sides of a Steel vessel with a length of 20 meters. He said he saw other vessels do this. Am I the only one who thinks this is impractical and… --- ## [EEXI for Tankers - Question](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/eexi-for-tankers-question/65950)
**Author:** [@Darius\_H](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Darius_H)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/eexi-for-tankers-question/65950 "2023-06-01T16:02:34Z")
We have a 2007 built 20k dwt product tanker. We received an eexi rating of C from class. Comments as follows: The CII is set on 11,7 , this is the required C-rating. We have attached screenshots for the CII today… --- ## [3D printing, hi future?](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/3d-printing-hi-future/62485)
**Author:** [@Jurgen54](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jurgen54)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/3d-printing-hi-future/62485 "2023-04-17T17:20:12Z")
Not only spare parts, it’s time to play with the big boys: If I remember well it’s not a first but now size become impressive. Ye future is nigh? --- ## [How to succeed in Ship Design](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-to-succeed-in-ship-design/64974)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-to-succeed-in-ship-design/64974 "2023-01-01T17:24:36Z")
How Ulstein Does It: --- ## [Wave propulsion](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wave-propulsion/64838)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 13, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wave-propulsion/64838 "2022-12-13T16:57:20Z")
A thread about getting propulsion power from waves was recently shut down as it deteriorated into jokes and mud slinging, but here is a more realistic way of gaining propulsion power from waves, or rather ships motion be… --- ## [Reality check](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/reality-check/64215)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2022, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/reality-check/64215 "2022-09-25T11:14:34Z")
In most cases it’s true --- ## [Wave resistance estimate](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wave-resistance-estimate/63817)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wave-resistance-estimate/63817 "2022-08-28T17:06:20Z")
--- ## [Reusable Ship Modules](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/reusable-ship-modules/62525)
**Author:** [@Klaveness](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Klaveness)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/reusable-ship-modules/62525 "2022-03-09T19:25:56Z")
I’m currently doing a course in sustainable business models, and our lecturer off-handedly mentioned that Maersk “have started building ships” with re-usable modules, so that they can be removed intact during shipbreakin… --- ## [3D models in the class approval process](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/3d-models-in-the-class-approval-process/62059)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2022, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/3d-models-in-the-class-approval-process/62059 "2022-01-24T10:44:29Z")
3D model: --- ## [Cruise ship for fish?](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/cruise-ship-for-fish/61496)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/cruise-ship-for-fish/61496 "2021-12-20T01:50:25Z")
A fish farm that can steam around the oceans at 4 kts.?: --- ## [New Fishery Research Vessel for NZ](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/new-fishery-research-vessel-for-nz/57129)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/new-fishery-research-vessel-for-nz/57129 "2021-11-25T14:01:07Z")
Skipsteknisk AS has secured a new contract for a Fisher Research Vessel to be built for New Zealand: PS\> Research vessel design is a specialty of Skipsteknisk. They have delivered designs for many of the research vesse… --- ## [ClassNK releases new version of PrimeShip-HULL(HCSR) ship design software](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/classnk-releases-new-version-of-primeship-hull-hcsr-ship-design-software/14168)
**Author:** [@rob](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/rob)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2021, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/classnk-releases-new-version-of-primeship-hull-hcsr-ship-design-software/14168 "2021-11-25T09:03:13Z")
Tokyo - Leading classification society ClassNK (Chairman and President: Noboru Ueda) has announced the release of Ver. 2.0.0 of its PrimeShip-HULL(HCSR) ship design support software. The new version is the world’s first … --- ## [Make Your Project a Success with HYDROCourses](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/make-your-project-a-success-with-hydrocourses/61158)
**Author:** [@HydroCompInc](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/HydroCompInc)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/make-your-project-a-success-with-hydrocourses/61158 "2021-10-27T20:33:39Z")
HYDROCourses is the newest innovation from HydroComp, Inc. HydroComp provides engineering tools to develop ships, boats, and other marine vehicles – and their propellers – more efficiently and responsibly. Leading the i… --- ## [TheNavalArch: Article on empirical evaluation of planing vessel resistance](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/thenavalarch-article-on-empirical-evaluation-of-planing-vessel-resistance/61095)
**Author:** [@thenavalarch](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/thenavalarch)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/thenavalarch-article-on-empirical-evaluation-of-planing-vessel-resistance/61095 "2021-10-23T07:46:00Z")
https://thenavalarch.com/a-quick-empirical-method-for-resistance-estimation-of-planing-vessels/ --- ## [Wave foils](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wave-foils/60448)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/wave-foils/60448 "2021-09-20T19:52:55Z")
https://shipinsight.com/articles/wavefoil-and-ip-huse-to-co-operate-in-bow-foil-manufacturer/ This subject has been discussed here before: --- ## [TheNavalArch: A simplified method of performing fatigue analysis of offshore structures](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/thenavalarch-a-simplified-method-of-performing-fatigue-analysis-of-offshore-structures/60446)
**Author:** [@thenavalarch](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/thenavalarch)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/thenavalarch-a-simplified-method-of-performing-fatigue-analysis-of-offshore-structures/60446 "2021-08-25T03:31:30Z")
Hi TheNavalArch is pleased to publish an article titled “A simplified method of performing fatigue analysis of offshore structures” This article details a simple method based on S-N Curves of ABS Rules to calculate fat… --- ## [What to do after a bachelor degree in Naval Architecture? RINa or MSc?](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/what-to-do-after-a-bachelor-degree-in-naval-architecture-rina-or-msc/59546)
**Author:** [@Foel](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Foel)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2021, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/what-to-do-after-a-bachelor-degree-in-naval-architecture-rina-or-msc/59546 "2021-06-01T10:05:49Z")
I’m a student of Naval Architecture and I’m close to get my bachelor degree. Actually I’m studying in Italy but I’d like to move out to my country because I want to develop my career abroad. I’ve heard about the Royal In… --- ## [GZ curve question?](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/gz-curve-question/58881)
**Author:** [@Sekou876](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Sekou876)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/gz-curve-question/58881 "2021-03-29T13:47:55Z")
Good day, how does a GZ curve look for a vessel with a GM of 0? --- ## [X-Bow Container ship?](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/x-bow-container-ship/58406)
**Author:** [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/x-bow-container-ship/58406 "2021-02-16T22:44:46Z")
--- ## [Trying to get from 430 ITC to 399 ITC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/trying-to-get-from-430-itc-to-399-itc/58368)
**Author:** [@1mitrocoma](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/1mitrocoma)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/trying-to-get-from-430-itc-to-399-itc/58368 "2021-02-12T19:34:33Z")
Any leads on who or how difficult it is to reduce your 430 ITC to 399 ITC for a international voyage purpose? Basically the IOPP cert required could be a real show stopper. Thanks --- ## [How to Design a Vessel in 5 steps](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-to-design-a-vessel-in-5-steps/16190)
**Author:** [@Vadim\_Yurchuk](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Vadim_Yurchuk)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-to-design-a-vessel-in-5-steps/16190 "2020-10-03T16:18:42Z")
Looking back at my design experience I would love to share some thoughts regarding how to design a vessel in 5 steps. By yourself. If you are a Naval Architect or a self-taught amateur. After some time spent in thinkin… --- ## [How to be future maritime leaders: an idea](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-to-be-future-maritime-leaders-an-idea/56817)
**Author:** [@inspection](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/inspection)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/how-to-be-future-maritime-leaders-an-idea/56817 "2020-09-29T20:50:10Z")
I am a mariner by training, and I work with mariners every day. I recall starting school and learning about engineering and deck and talking to my father about the wonderful things I could do if I was an engineer. We we… [Next page](https://forum.gcaptain.com/c/engineering/naval-architecture/55.md?page=1)