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All of it should be well below the waterline, it's what keeps the ship upright against the heeling torque from the sails. The whole ship displaced "only" about
by WJW 2y ago
All of it should be well below the waterline, it's what keeps the ship upright against the heeling torque from the sails. The whole ship displaced "only" about 540 tonnes (including the ballast), which I think is fairly light for a vessel of that size. As a comparison the navy vessels I used to sail on came in at 6000 tonnes for 150 metres, so 540 for 54 metres is quite a bit lighter.
- jabl 2y agoThanks to the square cube law, you can't linearly extrapolate the displacement from a 150m ship to a 54m one. Looking at some random ships in roughly that size one can see e.g. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavros_S_Niarchos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavros_S_Niarchos sailing ship of 59m, 635 tons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gepard-class_fast_attack_craft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gepard-class_fast_attack_craft German naval ship, 58m, 390 tons. Considering it was a yacht with relatively fine lines, even taking into account the ballast, 540 tons seems about ok.