Corrrection to "How Much Flotation"

David Kautz (david_kautz@hp.com)
Tue, 04 May 1999 15:52:07 -0700


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Uh, er, I left out a critical word in the following paragraph in my
original message.

Sorry,

Dave Kautz

Question #2: If a boat had a lot of addtional flotation, particularly
low in the boat as in the bilges and under the cockpit floor (places
where Bernie is proposing to add it), could that make the boat MORE
prone to turtling and more difficult to right once inverted. It seems to
me that if the boat was on it's side and WATER was entering the cabin,
flotation in the bottom of the boat would actually _encourage_ the boat
to continue over into the inverted position whereupon the flotation
would make it very stable upside down.