Boat design regulations and rules

[tamkvaitis]

Is theree anyu rules or regulation how the boat should be built? I hjave old books about boat building. Information about boatdesign in modern materials ofcourse isn't included. So maybe sbd could help me, any informations would be good.

See Dave Gerr's "Elements of Boat Strength". Shows how to calculate an Sn(scantling number) for your boat then how to apply that to different materials.....

[D'ARTOIS]

Doug, the guy has no source of information other than what the Russians have left when they pulled out of Lituania.
This country, must be build up from scratch and books as Tamvaitkis requires to get even an idea of what boatbuilding requires are far beyond his means of expenditure.

Tamkvaikis: the only solution for you is to come to the source - find yourself a job in a shipyard that produces yachts. There you can learn more in a month that in a year from the books. The books are an instrument, the practise must learn....
Can you read German?

"Elements of Boat Strength" was $39.95US last year new. You might look at some of the used book websites and put in a "want" there. If you do that they will automatically notify you when the book comes in.
For the wealth of scantling rules included this book is cheap. Measurements are in Metric and English units. The ISBN number is:
0-07-023159-1 You can order it new by calling McGraw-Hill Companies,Customer Service Dept. 1-800-772-4726; it's probably at Amazon.com as well. Marterials covered include fiberglass, foam sandwich composite, aluminum, steel copper-nickel hulls and wood/epoxy.

[D'ARTOIS]

That would do for a start, if you inquire further and you want to know what kind of requirements are needed to build larger boats and you want the AB, Lloyds and other rules in paper, well - that will be different cook, not?

[tamkvaitis]

well I am interested in sailboat design basicly. But as I understand the basics is the same. Well russian literature isn't so bad as you think, only things there is very little information about boat design. There are a lot of DIY articles and etc. but there aren't much information about boat design from scrap. I have found some books about boat design standarts, but they are all about old rusian "GOST" standart it haven't got anything in common with modern boats. There are few companies which are designing ships in my town (I live in only seaport in Lithuania), but as i know they are basicly doing the hard work of boat design (creating steel sheet drawings etc.) there aren't no creativity. I have a lot of Ideas in boat design and I want to make sketches of it, I know that there are thousands of "designers" like me but I want to do it for myself. I am sailing since I was born (my father was captain of a sailboat), so sailing is in my blood . Now I am draving boats using my oldschool literature biger part of my design is copyied from other boats which I know.

[tamkvaitis]

well I know who was hitler, thats all my german knowledge.

[artemis]

As you have substantial experience sailing, and are the son of a professional captain, you should have some ideas of "what a good sailboat looks like".

I would strongly suggest that you first purchase:

How to Design a Boat, John Teale, Sheridan House ( http://www.sheridanhouse.com ), ISBN 1-57409-157-3 - cover list price is $ 19.95 US

If you find this book to be of value, I would then suggest you purchase:

Elements of Boat Strength, Dave Gerr, International Marine - a division of McGraw Hill ( http://www.internationalmarine.com ), ISBN 0-07-023159-1 - cover list price is $ 34.95 US

Both companies accept on-line credit card purchases and ship worldwide. Between these two you should be able to do what you need - and determine if you wish to continue and/or add new books. The investment is not great if you do it in stages.

[Raggi_Thor]

For some scantlinigs examples, see this thread,
Lapstrake Scantlings
look at the xls from Jeppe Juul Nilsen.

[Raggi_Thor]

We are waiting for some new ISO standards for dimensioning of plywood hulls. It will hopefully be published next year.
These new standards will be based on panel stiffness and will allow thinner plywood skins than the old rules.

[terhohalme]

Larsson & Eliasson: Principles of Yacht Design is a must! The text is easy to understand, exellent drawings and calculation formulas! It's all there...

Here are some valuable articles of yacht design:

http://www.newavesys.com/articles.htm