摘要:Ship designing is a complex process,as the ship itself is a complex,technical multi-level object which operates in the air/water boundary environment and is exposed to the action of many different external and internal factors resulting from the adopted technical solutions,type of operation,and environmental conditions.A traditional ship design process consists of a series of subsequent multistage iterations,which gradually increase the design identification level.The paper presents problems related to the design of a small untypical vessel with the aid of variant methodology making use of optimisation algorithms.The computer-aided design methodology has been developed which does not need permanent reference to already built real ships and empirical-statistical relations.Possibilities were indicated for integrating together early design stages,and parallel designing of hull shape and parameters.