Freeship vs Freeship Plus ?

[scottperkins]

I am just starting out and notice that Freeship and Freeship Plus
are the poll winners. Previously in reading a year old message
it said that Freeship Plus was evolving fast. So now I would like
to know the views of experienced users what the difference
is today between the two so I can figure out which one to
start with. I am designing a small seaplane hull and figure that
while in the water it is simply a boat. This boat hull has
a step that is absent in regular boats so I think I will be
designing two hulls. The front half and the back half.
Thanks
Scott

[Ilan Voyager]

Seaplanes hulls are a bit more complicated than drawing the full in 2 pieces. Stepped planing hulls is a rather special domain. There is some data at Nasa's site. Be careful.

[Martijn_vE]

Both versions are the same when it comes to hull modeling and hydrostatics calculations. Freeship plus has some resistance related features added to it but is more unstable than the original version.

[scottperkinsusa]

IS there any chance that Freeship might run on a Win 98 computer ?
I noticed when I downloaded it that the only system requirements
it listed was 386i as opposed to Linux. Should I give any consideration
to the Delftship free program ? I still cant really understand what
that is since when I was at the Freeship 2.9 website and clicked
website and it took me to Delftship website ? ? ?

[scottperkinsusa]

I downloaded and Freeship seems to run OK on a Win 98 system.

I was hoping to build the hull with flat panels, I think you call that
with hard chines and so far I cannot see where you specify that
in FreeShip. It is fun playing stretch with the points in the 3D views
however.

[daiquiri]

This is the thread for topics related to Freeship+:
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/design-software/free-ship-2-6-vs-prediction-resistance-holtrop-mennen-started-method-15963-11.html
Over there you can find the links to latest version of the software.
For your convenience, I'm copying here the link for the download page:
http://freeship-plus.land.ru/indexEN.html
You will find links to manuals and tutorials on that page.

[Luckless]

If you are still running win98, I would suggest updating to a newer OS. You are no longer getting security updates after all, and there is still a lot of junk floating around taking advantage of holes in the system. If you don't want to invest anything in the computer, try a linux build.

[masalai]

I was using http://freeship-plus.pisem.su/indexEN.html ver 2.95 and 3.05 under wine OS emulator "which comes free in the box" with Linux mint, which can be downloaded from http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php using the 'main edition', which for some stupid reason, may be seen as "illegal" in USA where free speech and communication is prohibited....