T&T: Airing up the dink - hard-sided dink adherents may

[Rich Gano]

"Raising the dink (even a light weight one) that is on top, will adversely
affect the boats center of gravity. Hope you have fin stabilizers other wise
you are going to roll more then you did."

Boats, I assume this is a joke right?

My dink with motor weighs right at 180 pounds and is still below the level
of the flying bridge.  I weigh more than that.  Do I need to activate my
non-existent stabilizers every time I go the FB?  Or, I could counteract the
metacentric height change by staying at the lower station in heavy weather.
:)

Being an ex-salvage ship skipper, I have the information at hand to do the
change of metacentric height calcs, but some weight moves are too trivial,
especially 180 pounds at 22 inches on a 40,000-pound boat.

Rich Gano
CALYPSO (GB-42-295)
Southport, FL