The invention relates to an intelligent ship path planning method based on a fast search genetic algorithm. The method comprises the steps of (S1) performing rasterization on a test site electronic chart, obtaining obstacle points for the rasterized chart, obtaining starting point coordinates and target port coordinates, presetting a maximum number G of iterations, an initial temperature T0, an ending temperature Tf and an attenuation value a, and obtaining an initial path set pop0 and an inflection point of an unmanned ship, (S2) obtaining the inflection point spacing sum D of each path in the initial path set pop0, and (S3) obtaining an updated path set popm through G times of iterations by using crossover, variation, proportional selection and annealing optimization operations accordingto the inflection point spacing sum D, a target temperature T and a preset attenuation value a, performing temperature updating according to an attenuation coefficient a, and selecting a shortest path in the updated path set popm as an optimal path when T is smaller than Tf. The planned path of the invention has a small steering angle, the trajectory is smooth, an obstacle is actively avoided, the method is close to actual navigation application, the convergence speed is fast, and the problem that a traditional genetic algorithm is easy to fall into a local extremum is overcome.