Basic Design notes
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Basic Design or Initial Design is the preliminary design step. Some of the design notes in this section are:
Determining Principal Particulars : A comprehensive list of all the available emprical formulaes for estimating principal particulars in the early design stage.
Principal Dimensions & effects : To study the effects of principal dimensions on the ship design.
MARPOL calculation : To find the breadth and width of a ballast tank for a double hull tanker. Also to find the worst case damage stability condition.
Freeboard calculation : To find the freeboard draught (maximum allowable draught) and finalise the freeboard mark.
