February 2016

SNAME New England Meeting with HydroComp, Inc in Portsmouth, NH

A Presentation from Don MacPherson, HydroComp, Inc.

On February 18th SNAME New England held its February dinner meeting at the Portsmouth Harbor Events & Conference Center in Portsmouth, NH. 27 people were in attendance. The topic of the meeting was "Bulbous Bow Retrofit of R/V LAKE EXPLORER II", a paper written about work done by HydroComp, Inc. Don MacPherson, the technical director at HydroComp and a SNAME Fellow, gave the talk.  Don is also our T&R rep, and began the meeting with a quick overview of the T&R activities ongoing at SNAME. There was a lively discussion about bulbous bows and the analysis methodology presented in the paper afterwards

 

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