NEW WAY TO DETERMINE THE NAVIGATION AREA AND RESTRICTIONS ON WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR HIGH-SPEED MEGA YACHTS

Several different versions of the Rules governing the navigation areas for small vessels currently exist. For example, various categories of vessels are proposed in International Standards ISO, European Union Directives and the Rules of various classification societies (GL, BV, RINA, Shipping Register of Ukraine and others). These regulatory documents contain various names of navigation areas and various values of permissible wave height characterizing the category of the vessel. Some Rules offer formulas for calculating the maximum height of a significant wave that a ship can meet in a voyage. The need to compare the existing requirements of various Rules, as well as to propose a new way of calculating permissible wave heights, which will determine the effective operation of the vessel, are actual tasks. The new way of calculation will be based on a comparison of the total energy of the wave and the kinetic energy of the vessel.