How Important Does "Feel" Matter In Ship Stability?

[Kennebec_Captain]

@Sand_Pebble

Master, CE, 1A/E, Chief Mate & anyone with enough sense to know what could happen if something went wrong were awake during that step of the job. Fraq boats don’t feel right IMO.

I don’t know anything about this type of work, don’t know what a Fraq boat is.

I also don’t know what the crew of theses boats have available to them wrt stability.

All that said, this might be a case where digging into a bit of theory, in particular the righting arm at deck edge immersion might be worthwhile.

Hydrostatics

Recently was refreshing my limited knowledge of NA and after going to my go to reference Principles of Naval Architecture (classic SNAME reference, Comstock editor) and sorting through the issue I decided to check the new-fangled sources. I think you could do worse than this series as a quick review. https://www.youtube.com/user/NEECvideos/playlists And this was pretty clear on the GZ curve