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Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
By:Eric Mattison
Date: 2/2/2012, 5:29 pm
In Response To: Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient (Bill Hamm)

: Um...backwards, if you put ballast into a properly fitted Greenland
: boat you'll have too "little" freeboard, not too much.

: Bill H.

Thanks Bill - I always get those two backwards. Really my point is that if you add a bunch of ballast to a low volume Greenland style boat, you'll end up with poor performance at best.

Eric M.

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Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/30/2012, 11:08 am
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Mike Savage -- 1/30/2012, 12:17 pm
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John Abercrombie -- 1/30/2012, 1:12 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/30/2012, 2:08 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Mike Savage -- 1/30/2012, 3:25 pm
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David Bynoe -- 1/30/2012, 4:02 pm
Ballast works
Jay Babina -- 1/31/2012, 12:37 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Robert N Pruden -- 1/31/2012, 3:03 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Eric Mattison -- 2/1/2012, 12:15 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Bill Hamm -- 2/2/2012, 3:46 am
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Eric Mattison -- 2/2/2012, 5:29 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Bill Hamm -- 2/5/2012, 3:48 am