Yeh, Mike; that makes sense.

Or... does it? At first blush that looks like an absolutely reasonable
rebuttal of my speculation, but then... certainly a stationary boat
must pivot around its center of gravity, but d'you s'pose that is
necessarily so when a boat is carving into a turn, building up a pile
of water on the outside-of-the-turn side of the bow? 'Course, the OP
is talking about an outrigger, and they aren't s'posed to carve because
they aren't s'posed to heel.

Or is that is necessarily so when one end, due to a short outrigger,
offers more lateral resistance than the other end? Mightnot the pivot
point then migrate toward the end with the outrigger? It's too early
for me to follow these thought-experiments through!


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On Jan 26, 12:38 am, Michael Daly wrote:
Oci-One Kanubi wrote:
more or less pivoting on the bow.

Boats always pivot around their center of gravity. It can't be any other way.

Mike