Ballast

Ballast
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BALLAST (0. Swed. barlast, perhaps from bar, bare or mere, and last, load), heavy material, such as gravel, stone or metal, ...

Ballast: heavy substances loaded by a vessel to improve stability, trimming, sea-keeping and to increase the immersion at the propeller.

BALLAST: Added weight in the boat's bottom to provide stability.
BARE POLES: To sail under ‘bare poles’ is to proceed, usually in heavy weather, by blowing downwind with no sail set and the engine off.

Ballast - pumps carry water to the ballast tanks to help stabilize the ship
Ballast - a heavy substance used to improve the stability and control the draft (see "draft" below) of the ship
Beam - widest part of the ship ...

ballast
A weight at the bottom of the boat to help keep it stable. Ballast can be place inside the hull of the boat or externally in a keel.
ballast weight ...

Ballast: heavy weight, often seawater, which gives a ship stability and improves handling when she is not carrying cargo. Such a ship is said to be steaming in ballast.

Ballast
Materials, solely carried to improve the trim and the stability of the vessel. In vessels usually water is carried as ballast in tanks, specially designed for that purpose.

Ballast - weight in the lower portion of a boat, used to add stability
Battens - thin, stiff strips of plastic or wood, placed in pockets in the leech of a sail, to assist in keeping its form
Beam - the width of the boat at its widest ...

ballast
(Conventional) Additional weight carried low on a yacht to maximise the vessel's stability. Also see Water Ballast.
bare poles ...

ballast - Weighted materials used as a counterweight to stabilize a boat
beam - The width of a ship ...

ballast
Weight added to the bottom of a boat to improve stability.
bass boat
Low-profile, outboard-powered boat, generally no more than 22 feet long and typically equipped with rod lockers, casting decks with pedestal seats and livewells.

Ballast Iron or lead placed in the keel of a ship to increase her stability.
Bar A shoal in the approach to a harbor.
Battens Thin pieces of wood or fiberglass set into the leech of the sail to control shape.

Ballast
A very heavy material, such as lead or iron, placed in the keel of the boat, or in the bilge. It is used to provide stability. Oftentimes the crew is also a ballast - especially on smaller boats, or in a jocular way.
Bare poles ...

Ballast- Heavy material placed in the bottom of a boat to give stability.
Balloon jib-Sail used on a reach; larger and fuller than a genoa.
Bare poles- Having no sail raised..

Ballast Weight - usually metal, placed low in a boat to provide stability.
Barber Hauler - A line attached to the jib or jib sheet, used to adjust the angle of sheeting by pulling the sheet toward the centerline of the boat.

Ballast: Weight in the keel of a boat to add stability (righting moment).
Beam: A boat's greatest width.

Ballast: Weight in the bottom of the hull of a boat, to add stability (righting moment).

ballasted: bal-last (bàl¹est) noun 1. Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship or the gondola of a balloon to enhance stability. 2. a. Coarse gravel or crushed rock laid to form a bed for roads or railroads. b.

Ballast - heavy weighted material put in the lower parts of the ship to improve stability, could be shifted to one side or another to compensate for changes in cargo, etc. Usually of stone or junk iron.

ballast, shifting - To move ballast to the weather side of a vessel during sailing.

Ballast:
Weight at the bottom or the lower portion of the boat to give her stability and/or to provide satisfactory fore and aft trim.. Ballast can be place inside the hull of the boat or externally in a keel.

BALLAST Weight carried in ship's bottom to improve stability. BARE POLES A ship with no sails set has bare poles. BARK, BARQUE A three-masted vessel having square sails on fore and main masts, and a spanker on the mizzen.

Ballast
Heavy material, such as iron, lead, bags of sand or shot, barrels or tanks of water, carried in the bottom of the ship to steady her or to prevent her leaning over too easily when the wind blows against her side or sails
Battens ...

Ballast - Weight in a boat which affects the boats trim
Ballast - Weight place in the bottom of a boat to give it stability
Bar - Sand, mud or debris shoal ...

Ballast
Weight carried low in a boat, usually metal, to improve trim or stability. The Eastland used water for ballast.
Bare Poles ...

ballast
Material used to improve the stability and control of a ship. In wooden ships usually stone, lead or iron; in metal ships, often water. (back)
barge ...

Ballast - Heavy weight placed low in the hull to improve stability.
Bar - A shoal of sand or mud on which you can run aground.
Beam - The width of a boat.

Iron ballast should be coal-tarred, painted, or whitewashed with hot lime.

Canting Ballast Twin Foil Technology
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Team ABN AMRO VO70 information, including details of the canting keel.

BALLAST Weight carried low in a boat to increase stability. The lower, the greater the benefit. Ballast can be lead, iron, concrete, etc., depending on the space available.

BALLAST - Extra weight carried low in a vessel to increase stability.
BATTEN - Stiffening strip placed in leech of sail. Also, a wooden strip fastened over seam to stop leakage. ...

BALLAST Any weight carried solely for the purpose of making the vessel more seaworthy. Ballast may be either portable or fixed, depending upon the condition of the ship.

Ballast-Is either pigs of iron, stones, or gravel, which last is called single ballast; and their use is to bring the ship down to her bearings in the water which her provisions and stores will not do.

when sailing balanced helm A sailboat that has neither weather helm nor leeward helm bald headed Of a gaff-rigged boat sailing without a topmast bale A fitting on the end of a spar, such as the boom, to which a line may be fed ballast ...

Ballast - weight in a boat which affects the boats trim.
Beam - greatest width of a boat; the side of a boat.
Below - inside a boat.
Berth - a sleeping area in a boat; or, a place to moor a boat.

Ballast: Weight below decks that keeps the boat upright.
Battens: Strips of wood or other materials used to support a sail or sail area.
Batten Down: Secure hatches and loose objects for approaching bad weather.

Ballast - weight in the lower portion of a boat, used to add stability (In a multihull - useless crew on other boats.)
Bar-- a shoal area at the river or inlet (Also site of post-race discussions / lies / exaggerations / bet-collections) ...

SBT Segregated Ballast Tank
(MARPOL)Tank used exclusively for water ballast but which can be pumped through cargo pumps under certain conditions SHEX Sunday and Holidays Excluded
Method of calculating the Lay days. These days are not counted.

Ballast Weight: A Weight normally of metal and placed deep in the hull to balance the boat
Barber Hauler: A line connected with the jib sail to control its adjustments
Bareboating: Renting a boat with no crew, generally for vacations ...

Ballast - Any heavy material (Placed in the lower section) used to stabilize or add stability to a ship.
Batten -A strip of wood or plastic used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing.

You have to take it out of the structure and the ballast. Kevin has given the 62 11,070 pounds of lead ballast for a ballast-to-displacement ratio of 18 percent. This is low.

Stability of a single-hull ship is achieved by keeping the center of gravity (c.o.g.) as low as possible (hence the reason for placing lead ballast under the Munin floor boards) and the c.o.d. as high as possible.

The part of a keel that does not contain ballast.
deck
The lid on a boat on which the crew walks and sits. A decked boat (deck boat) has a deck, unlike an open boat. The foredeck is forward of the cockpit in a powerboat, of the mast in a sailboat.

The ballast was in the form of canvas bag of 50-60 pounds of gravel that the large and active crew moved each time the boat tacked.

Keels are different from centerboards and other types of foils in that keels are made of heavy materials to provide ballast to stabilize the boat. Keels may be fixed, or non-movable, or they may retract to allow sailing in shallower waters.

In a small boat with little or no ballast, you will have to move to the other side of the boat during the tack, ducking under the mast (as shown in the photo).

KEEL: The portion of the hull which protrudes farthest beneath the water line, usually ballasted to provide stability.
KNOT: One nautical mile per hour.

All items placed onboard any boat should be considered movable ballast and as such must be firmly secured in place. If heavy unsecured items shift unexpectedly while underway they may cause injury or could severely effect the boats trim.
SURVIVAL: ...

Ballest: Additional weight placed low in the hull to improve stability; ballast may be either internal or external.
Bar: A sand, mud or debris shoal, as across the mouth of a river or harbor.

stability and prevents the boat from slipping sideways a main structural member, the backbone of the ship running longitudinally along the bottom from stem to stern; also the vertical downward extension of a sailboat's bottom, usually ballasted, ...

A flat surface built into the bottom of the boat to prevent the reduce the leeway caused by the wind pushing against the side of the boat. A keel also usually has some ballast to help keep the boat upright and prevent it from heeling too much.

ORE-BULK-OIL CARRIER- A large multi-purpose ship designed to carry cargoes wither of ore or other bulk commodities or oil so as to reduce the time the ship would be in ballast if restricted to one type of commodity.

may be either floating with the mast and sail lying on the water, or may have turned turtle lying with the mast pointing downwards. A keel boat with a water tight or self draining cockpit normally rights herself because of the weight of the ballast ...

Wakeboard boats are often equipped with a tower or extremely tall pylon to fasten the tow line in a manner to aid vertical jumping and water-ballast devices to increase the weight of the boat. slipA boat berth between two piers or floats.

Usually an ordinary fir planked boat will not sink if filled with water, the gunwale just showing above the surface ; if, however, she has ballast on board or other weight, she would sink.