Coaster ship Project "Gijón"

Comparative analysis with GetxoNaval program

The September 2013 issue of Ingeniería Naval journal has published an article from Aurelio Gutiérrez, Dr. Naval Architect, with the description of a desing coastal vessel prototype called "Gijón", for the short sea shipping trafic.

This article described in some detail the vessel specifications and published some interesting particulars from the point of view of naval architect, which are not very common in the journals, what suggested me the interest of comparing the published particulars with those obtained with my program "GetxoNaval" focused to ship preliminary dimensioning, that can be freely used on-line
by clicking here.

In this link you can look at the mentioned comparison that shows a good agreement between the results obtained with GetxoNaval and project characteristics published by Ingeniería Naval.


I hope that the interest of this type of vessel for short sea shipping  in Spain, leads to the  construction of some vessels as this prototype.