On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:15:04 -0500, "Roger Long"
wrote:

"IanM" wrote

You *are* missed.

Well, thank you. OK, I'll throw something into the pot. Here's a first
draft of something I may come back to later. A discussion along the same
lines got started here quite a while ago and disolved into the usual flame
war. I brought it up over at the high class bar where I hang out now and
another RBC refugee complained that I never finished my explanation here and
was I going to leave them hanging over there as well? It's winter and there
are only so many hours a day I can work on my boat so I whipped this up:

http://www.rogerlongboats.com/Stability.htm

Sorry, Virginia, buoyancy is imaginary.

Rather a long drawn out exercise in semantics, isn't it? All to prove
that, a beautiful, buoyant ball bounding over the wine-dark sea,
isn't.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)