TRADITIONAL SHIP DESIGN


General Info


  • Course Title: Traditional Ship Design
  • Course Code: ΝΑΟMΕ1369
  • Semester: 9th
  • Course Type: S.1
  • Weekly Teaching Hours: 3 (Lectures)
  • Credits (ECTS): 4
  • Offered to ERASMUS+ students:
  • Course Website: https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/NAFP116/
  • Professors: S. Peppa


Course Content / Syllabus


Historical background of the Greek wooden shipbuilding. Types of Greek traditional boats – Typology of hulls – Typology of rigging. Construction phases and tools of wooden shipbuilding. Methods of designing traditional wooden boats (Methods of “monochnaro” –Methods of the lofting floor “sala”). Boat building timber. Design principles and criteria for building traditional boats. Building traditional boats – Preparation - Framing up - Reinforcement of skeleton - Planking - Caulking. Evolution of traditional shipbuilding – Use of modern CASD software packages.


Course Outline



  1. G.B. = General Background, S.B. = special background, S.: Specialised.↩︎