Resistance tests of a systematic series of planing hull forms

This paper presents the results of resistance tests of five planning boat models of different length-beam ratio. Each model was tested at a number of loads and LCG Locations. The results are presented as curves of angle of attack and resistance-weight ratio versus Froude number. The resistance data have been corrected to boat weights of 10,000 and 100,000 lb. The measured values of wetted lengths, wetted surface, and rise of CG are also presented in tubular form. The conditions at which the models porpoised at high speed were determined and a graph defining the stable and unstable regions is included. A method was ascertained of collapsing the high-speed resistance data from the tests of the series into a single graph. A simplified prediction method was then developed which can be used to determine the high-speed resistance of planning hulls of a wide range of proportions, and of any gross weight from 1000 to 100,000 lb. References 1. K.S.M. Davidson and A. Suarez “tests of Twenty Related Models of V-Bottom Motor Boats – EMB Series 50,” DTMB Report r-47, March 1949 2. E.P. Clement, “Development and Model Tests of an Efficient Planing Hull Design,” DTMB Report 1314, April 1959. 3. E.P. Clement, “How to use the SNAME Small Craft Data Sheets for Design and for Resistance Prediction,” SNAME Technical and Research Bulletin No. 1-23. 4. C. Ridgley-Nevitt, “The Resistance of Trawler Hull Forms of 0.65 Prismatic Coefficient,” Trans. SNAME vol. 64, 1956, pp. 433 468. 5. W. Sottorf, “Systematic Model Researches on the Stability Limits of the DVL Series of Float Designs,” NACA Technical Memorandum 1254, December 1949.