PREFACE 



This report is published to assist coastal engineers and marine facility 

 operators in the planning, design, and construction of floating breakwaters. 

 The work was carried out under the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research 

 Center's (CERC) Design of Floating Breakwaters work unit, Coastal Structures 

 Evaluation and Design Program, Coastal Engineering Area of Civil Works 

 Research and Development. 



The report was prepared by Andrew V. Baird, Marine Resource Management, 

 Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Neil W. Ross, who provided technical 

 supervision, under CERC Contract No. DACW72-80-M-0626. 



The authors express appreciation to the many marine facility operators 

 who responded to the surveys, particularly to J. Poole, S.W. Richards, T.W. 

 Kingman, and CD. Biddick for helping develop the final questionnaire. The 

 authors also wish to acknowledge the University of Rhode Island Sea Grant 

 Program, the New York Sea Grant Program, and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber 

 Company for assisting in the compilation of the floating breakwater inven- 

 tory. The authors are especially indebted to Dr. E. Richey of the University 

 of Washington and W.F. Baird, P.E., and J. Readshaw, P.E., of Hydrotechnology, 

 Ltd., for their professional advice and support. 



W.N. Seelig was the CERC contract monitor for the report, under the gen- 

 eral supervision of Dr. R.M. Sorensen, Chief, Coastal Processes and Structures 

 Branch, and Mr. R.P. Savage, Chief, Research Division. 



Technical Director of CERC was Dr. Robert W. Whalin, P.E., upon publica- 

 tion of this report. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress 

 approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, 

 approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



