The following four design categories help to quantify a boat’s degree of seaworthiness, based on the wave height and wind speed the boat is designed to encounter and handle. the further offshore the vessel is expected to venture, the higher are the expectations for construction strength, stability, freeboard, reserve buoyancy, resistance to. The existing provisions on boat design categories, the briefing paper concludes, that removing of the existing link between design category and the intended use according to geographical location, and instead link boat design category with wind strength and wave heights as main parameters, can contribute to more precise and more appropriate. Lots of mention in recent threads on diesel fuel of "category c and d waters". i seem to have missed this terminology until now, and am confused since i have gathered that category c and d waters are the open sea, so completely unrelated to eu directive designations for boats, where category a boats are suitable for ocean going, and category d for the local pond..
The following four ce design categories help to quantify a boat’s degree of seaworthiness, based on the wave height and wind speed the boat is designed to encounter and handle. the further offshore the vessel is expected to venture, the higher are the expectations for construction strength, stability, freeboard, reserve buoyancy, resistance. Category:ship types has articles on types of ships. category:boat types has articles on types of boats.. subcategories. this category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.. Rcd compliance guide cd rom - edition 1 - feb 06 email rcd@rya.org.uk it is a home built boat placed on the market within five years of completion it is an experimental or racing boat being redesigned for compliance with the rcd.