Ship ballast
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ship-ballast-164-3980011
title:
Ship ballast
text:
Ballast is weight placed low in ships to lower their centre of gravity, which increases stability. Insufficiently ballasted boats tend to tip or heel excessively in high winds. Too much heel may result in the vessel filling with water and/or capsizing. If a sailing vessel needs to voyage without cargo, then ballast of little or no value will be loaded to keep the vessel upright. Some or all of this ballast will then be discarded when cargo is loaded. If a cargo vessel wishes to travel empty or p
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description:
Weights used in sailboats to provide righting moment to resist the heeling forces on the sail
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_ballast
date created:
2005-04-03T05:44:58Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T19:19:34Z
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