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Minutes

January 31, 2007 Meeting Minutes

Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: DOT/MARAD Headquarters
400 Seventh St., SW – Conf. Room 4342
Washington, DC

Attendees

    Rich Sonnenschein (MARAD), Ch.
    Mike Bergmann (CSC, Advanced Marine Division)
    Bruce Johnson
    John Womack (St Michaels Ship Design)
    Geof Fuller, by telecom (NOAA)

Old Business

  1. Introductions
    2. Rich Sonnenschein welcomed the attendees, noting a couple of late cancellations which would impact the Agenda. Geof Fuller joined the meeting by telecom.
  2. SDC Update
    3. Rich Sonnenschein reviewed highlights of the November 14, 2006, meeting of the joint SNAME/ASNE Ship Design Committee. There are two new T&R Panels under SDC: SD-6 (Commercial Ships) and SD-8 (Naval Ships). There was also significant turnover among panel chairs under the SDC.
  3. Panel Membership
    4. The Panel welcomes new member, Dave Maurer, of AMSEC/M. Rosenblatt & Son.
  4. SLF Progress
    5. This item will be covered at the next SD-3 meeting.
  5. Inclining Experiment Guidance and Instruction Project
    6. John Womack reported that final wiring of the test rig should be accomplished sometime this summer; eight inclinometers have been procured.
  6. Update on Dynamic Stability of Small Navy Vessels
    7. This item will be covered at the next SD-3 meeting.
  7. Review of Stability-Related PNA Draft Revision
    8. Finalized Panel reviewers’ comments on draft Chapter 3 (Subdivision & Damage Stability) were forwarded to the author (Rob Tagg), the PNA editor, and the SNAME front office on November 14, 2006. Rob Tagg has mentioned by telephone that the comments were constructive, but that he would welcome actual examples of survival criteria for vessel types in which he is less expert – such as Small Vessels and Naval Ships – to include in the chapter. There is no further activity to report on draft Chapters 1 and 2.

Other Old Business

  • Technical Presentation - Bruce Johnson gave a preview slideshow presentation of his paper on the SNAME-funded Stability Letter Improvement Project (SLIP) for Passenger Sailing Vessels (see attached pdf), prepared for the upcoming 18th Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium. The objective of this project is to develop an analytical process to provide the operator with not only survivable, but desirable criteria, from a passenger comfort perspective.
  • Stability Panel SD-3 Web Page – Rich Sonnenschein has begun construction of a modest web page for the Stability Panel; several files have been forwarded to the SNAME ftp site.

New Business

None

Action Items

  • Rich Sonnenschein will continue construction on the Panel web page.

Next Meeting

The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 AM; the next Panel meeting date is TBD, but is likely to be held in April or May, in Washington, DC (MARAD is scheduled to move to the new DOT Headquarters Building in mid-April 2007).