Abstract:
The calculation of free board is very essential in ship design. This is because
the free board calculation is calculated to allow maximum legal limit up to which
a ship can be loaded. To show the limit, merchant ships usually have a marking
on their hulls known as the Plimsoll mark, which will show the maximum
allowable number of cargo the ships can be loaded with. In this report, the
computational programmer has been developed by simplifying the existing
conventional method of free board calculation. The International Load Line
Convention 1966 (ILLC 1966) has been a main reference and the process then
verified with the actual data obtained from selected classification society.
Based on the series of data, corrections factors contributed in the free board
calculation can be highlighted and the trend distribution of correction can be
discussed individually
