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Encyclopedia: Sailing ballast Source:Wikipedia
Ballast
is used in
sailboats
to provide
moment
to resist the lateral forces on the
sail
. Insufficiently ballasted boats will tend to tip, or heel, excessively in high winds. Too much heel may result in the boat
capsizing
. When sailing vessels carried cargo, it was at times
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Ballast is used in sailboats to provide moment to resist the lateral forces on the sail. Insufficiently ballasted boats will tend to tip, or heel, excessively in high winds. Too much heel may result in the boat capsizing. When sailing vessels carried cargo, it was at times necessary to sail to a port...
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Ballast may mean: Track ballast, railway track-bed, on which sleepers and track is laid Sailing ballast, ship's ballast, used to weight a ship down Ballast tanks, a device used on ships and submarines and other submersibles to control buoyancy and stability Electrical ballast, used to stabilize...
Ferrovie.eu : Sailing ballast ... Many smaller sailing vessels use water ballast to save weight and allow easy trailering, and the ballast is loaded at launching and dumped when the boat is re-trailered, ...
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Sailing Ballast |
This concern may also apply to sailing vessels, if they dump water ballast from one region into another, however this is not generally done.
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Many smaller sailing vessels use water ballast to save weight and allow easy trailering, and the ballast is loaded at launching and dumped when the boat is re-trailered, usually at the same location.
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About Sailing ballast ... Many smaller sailing vessels use water ballast to save weight and allow easy trailering, and the ballast is loaded at launching and dumped when the boat is re-trailered, ...
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Many smaller sailing vessels use water ballast to save weight and allow easy trailering, and the ballast is loaded at launching and dumped when the boat is re-trailered, usually at the same location.
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Sailing ballast Information |
Sailing ballast summary with 3 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. ... Sailing ballast from Wíkipedia. ©2006 by Wíkipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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Scuttlebutt News Center: Water Ballast - Dealing With Discharge |
Whenever a sailing yacht tacks the ballast water will have to be transferred from tanks on the windward side of the hull to the other.
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Scuttlebutt: Your Source for Daily Sailing News |
Scuttlebutt is a digest of major sailing news, commentary, opinions, features and dock talk . . . with a North American focus. ... Scuttlebutt Sailing Club...
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