Water Ballast
 

You are sailing an ultra lightweight boat, with water
ballast, on the ocean.

Winds are light and you don't need to carry ballast
for righting moment.

Why would be a reason to carry sea water ballast
in these conditions? 2 pts

Water Ballast
 

2 points to you.

wrote
On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:36:04 GMT, "Bart Senior"
wrote:

You are sailing an ultra lightweight boat, with water
ballast, on the ocean.

Winds are light and you don't need to carry ballast
for righting moment.

Why would be a reason to carry sea water ballast
in these conditions? 2 pts


momentum

BB

Water Ballast
 

Good question Oz. It would be upwind for the answer given
by BB--momentum.

I'll give you 1 point for being astute enough to realize that..

OzOne wrote

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:36:04 GMT, "Bart Senior"
scribbled thusly:

You are sailing an ultra lightweight boat, with water
ballast, on the ocean.

Winds are light and you don't need to carry ballast
for righting moment.

Why would be a reason to carry sea water ballast
in these conditions? 2 pts

What point of sail?

Water Ballast
 

To dampen the pitching of the hull, increase the water line and to keep
the hull on its' design lines

Ole Thom

Water Ballast
 

You haven't convinced me.

Weight in the bow when going downwind in light
air would reduce wetted surface. This could be
accompished by shifting other internal mass,
including crew weight forward, or even better, by
use of a swinging/canting keel.

Wetted surface can also be reduced by inducing heel.

I can see how punching through a contrary swell
would be improved with ballast, but this could
easily be accomplished with athwartships ballast
tanks.

The best place for ballast tanks is in the aft flared
section of the hull where it will exert the most
leverage, and heel can be controlled by choosing
which tank or tanks are filled.

I don't know of any boats with built-in bow ballast
tanks. Do you?

OzOne wrote

And it would be downwind if the yacht was fitted with bow tanks.

Water Ballast
 

"Bart Senior" wrote in message ...
You haven't convinced me.



I don't know of any boats with built-in bow ballast
tanks. Do you?


Yes

http://www.marcon.com/vessels/CB12202/flyer.cfm

Joe



OzOne wrote

And it would be downwind if the yacht was fitted with bow tanks.

Water Ballast
 

I didn't see any bow tanks in the specs.

Joe wrote

"Bart Senior" wrote

You haven't convinced me.

I don't know of any boats with built-in bow ballast
tanks. Do you?

Yes

http://www.marcon.com/vessels/CB12202/flyer.cfm

Joe
OzOne wrote

And it would be downwind if the yacht was fitted with bow tanks.

Water Ballast
 

"Bart Senior" wrote in message et...
I didn't see any bow tanks in the specs.

All swiftships over 110 ft have bow ballast. Keep them from getting to
airborne.

They make one of the finest hulls, but as you can the the canooks
screwed this one up when they repowered it. It was a much better boat
with the triple 800HP MTU's. Typical cannoks!

Joe




Joe wrote

"Bart Senior" wrote

You haven't convinced me.

I don't know of any boats with built-in bow ballast
tanks. Do you?

Yes

http://www.marcon.com/vessels/CB12202/flyer.cfm

Joe
OzOne wrote

And it would be downwind if the yacht was fitted with bow tanks.