T&T: Heeling and fuel tank crossover

[Rudy and Jill]

>Will the transfer of fluids, from one tank to another, affect the list on >a boat?


The fluid that crosses over will stop once the levels in the various tanks are even. This is precipitated by any existing list on the boat. 

The weight of the transferred fluids may mathematically sound large, but the change in the center of gravity of the boat, as a whole, was already pre-adjusted by the list. Unless the tanks are exceptionally tall and narrow, any transfer of fluid amounts to very little change in the overall balance of the boat. Practically speaking, all the weight of the fluid in the tanks, continues to be balanced over the boat's center of balance, even thought one tank may contain more fluid than the other.

[Adding fluid to a tank and not allowing it to disperse into other tanks, would cause a list, but in the situations noted in the posts, the list was already present.]

I would suspect, as some has indicated in the posts, that any further change in list, due to a shift in fluids from one tank to another, would be minimal, if at all.

Rudy
Briney Bug, Port St Joe, Fl