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Default Something for the pot (Stability)

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.

--
Roger Long




Roger,

Something more concrete.

I saw this boat that claimed to have "Angle of vanished stability 180
degrees."

I am more than slightly skeptical.

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listi...d=14984&ur l=

Would you posit an opinion?