Table 4 Annual sea state occurrence in the open North Atlantic ocean [20]. Geometry modification of the parent hull are based on the morphing aproach presented by Serani et al. [10]. This is based on modified designs, used as a basis function for the geometry modification space, as given by a combined geometry and physics based dimensionality reduc- tion method based on the KLE [9, 10]. The original design space was defined by 27 coefficients of orthogonal basis functions spanning a tridimensional domain embedding the hull [6]. The design space was reduced in dimensionality to 14 variables by the KLE method. Hereafter, only the first KLE function (and therefore only one design variable x) is used, corresponding