Autoship® + Autohydro® Main Tool for Gulf Coast
Vessel Design
Autoship Systems Corporation of Vancouver, Canada is pleased to supply small to medium size shipyards with our industry-standard marine design programs. An example of such an end user is Neuville Boat Works of the USA, who has been using Autoship Systems programs for 14 years.

Don Bordelon in the Engineering Department writes:
"Located in south-central Louisiana, Neuville Boat Works is a small, family owned business formed in 1969 that specializes in the design and fabrication of aluminum boats from 40' to 170' primarily as crew-supply vessels in support of the oil industry here in the Gulf of Mexico.

We were introduced to Autoship Systems in 1992 when we purchased the old DOS based Autoboat software which we've used to design scores of vessels giving us beautifully faired lines and saving us the arduous task of lofting, It absolutely paid for itself the first time out. As time progressed though, it became apparent that we would have to upgrade our old software to the newer Windows® based programs. Over the years since then, we've purchased Autoship®, Autopower® and finally Autohydro® which we acquired as a backup in the event that we lost the assistance of a marine consultant who for years handled all of our intact and damage stability calculations. Well, as circumstances would have it, we did lose him in December 2005.

Now, for the first time, it became necessary for us to put together our own Trim and Stability packages. As we began the process of setting up the software for our vessels, we were quick to contact the Autoship people for technical assistance. We were pleasantly surprised to discover how willing they were to help us always responding to our emails and calls promptly. Over the next couple of months, we learned how to use Autohydro to produce an acceptable stability package and now feel confident that with our Autoship software suite we can handle virtually any future vessel design requirement that comes our way, large or small."

Autoship Systems Corporation is a marine software developer based in Vancouver, Canada. For over twenty-five years, ASC has been creating state-of-the-art design software solutions for naval architects and marine engineers around the world. More recently, Autoship Systems has been providing world-class load planning systems and loading instruments to the marine shipping industry.

For more information, email products@autoship.com.