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Principal Dimensions and Design

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Our aim in this chapter is to take you into the second round of the design spiral. Previous chapters introduced some basics, so that you should have been able to set out your vessel mission and, based on that, select initial dimensions or a range of potential dimensions and characteristics from which to home in on a design to detail out and refine.

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Yun, L., Bliault, A., Rong, H.Z. (2019). Principal Dimensions and Design. In: High Speed Catamarans and Multihulls. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7891-5_7

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