The water rise in front of a model planing hull

It is known that the water "splashes-up" or rises above the undisturbed surface immediately in front of a planing surface. This rise is greatest in front of a flat planing plate and a number of attempts have been made to reduce the experimental measurements of this phenomenon to some kind of order. Since it was first independently proposed by both Schnitzer and Smiley in 1952, all attempts to correlate the flat plate splash-up have started with the assumption that splash is only a function of the immersed length of the plate and is independent of trim angle at least below above 20 degree . In part, this was because the three early studies which compared this hypothesis with experimental data omitted those portions of the data which did not support the hypothesis. The paper concludes by criticizing the format of some modern reports of experiments with model planing hulls and suggests that, in addition to the usual graphical presentations, measured data should always be reported numerically. Also, that when relevant data is omitted from a plot, the facts of such omission should be clearly stated.