The application of solid boxes on small passenger speed-boat

Abstract

The application of solid boxes to prevent the sinking of small boats had been executed by the authors with small tuna-long boats. This concept was continued to be applied on small passenger speed-boats to find the possibility of application of solid boxes. This is due to some restrictions of spaces inside small passenger boats. The purpose of application of solid boxes on board is to reduce the incoming water and to prevent the boat from sinking. The data of full-scale boats were collected and developed into Maxsurf software. A scale boat model was developed by this software in order to compute and analyze the boat parameters as well as to construct the real boat model. The boat model was arranged for the details of weight components and their centers. The incoming water was filled into the model and tested for its sinkage. The results showed that the boat was sink. Therefore for future work, other method should be considered on the model in order to prevent it from sinking.