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BUOYANCY AND STABILITY '

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The stability of a boat is the ability to resume its corporate balance after the oscillations, pitch and roll, caused by wind and / or waves.

We have stability in shape, hull full or rounded in shape, or weight as hulls or displacement hulls such as those obtained on sailing boats medium - using a large ballast near the keel.

As is shown in the figure are represented at two points G and C.

G, center of gravity or CG is the point of application of the resultant formed by the weights that make up the ship and cargo. It can be found above the waterline or below it. Its position depends on the weights placed on board (if we only weight above the waterline will have the higher center of gravity, while, as in sailing, we have the center of gravity below).

C, the center of Hull or thrust is the point of force application results of the hydrostatic pressure (for buoyancy) acting on the surface of the hull. Its position depends on how the hull is submerged or not.

During the stance balance the two forces, P, weight of the boat, and S had to push the principle of Archimedes, are mutually equal and opposite. The weight always acts on the center of gravity, while D acts on the center of Hull C.

C's position is in relation to the heeling of the ship, while G remains a fixed point.

Precisely for this reason, it creates a righting torque. In fact, while C 'moves, even moves his thrust, and then P and S are no longer aligned, but are far apart at a distance X. This distance is the couple's strong arm that tends to straighten the boat, acting as long as G and C are not to reposition themselves on the same vertical.

metacentre (M) is the intersection of the vertical stress S, raised from C ', with the longitudinal plane of symmetry, the critical point within which you should not raise the center Gravity not reverse the aligning torque (as shown) a trend that would lead to the overthrow of the hull.

fact, if the metacentric height, distance between M and G falls below G, the boat capsizes. The greater this height the greater the strength of the arm X.

Factors affecting stability are:

-water in the bilge (the hull), which acts as a ball of lead in the movements of the hull moves like crazy, causing abnormal and dangerous confusion and therefore risk of reversal ;

-significant weight must be placed symmetrically with respect to longitudinal and transverse axis of the hull, arranged in deck and as low as possible.

must remember that a boat is pretty well designed irrovesciabile (excluding multi-hulls) and the reversal of 180 degrees while it is possible is a condition of unstable equilibrium and therefore the boat righted itself again, experience a 360 ° however, exclude ...

Fair winds to all!