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FUNCTION 3 - PART 03: INSTRUCTOR MANUAL

1he values of GZ derived from KN curves can be reduced to GG1 cos 8 before plotting or the
curve GG1 cos 8 can be superimposed on the GZ curve, as 'shown in Figure 2.

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GZ

(metres
)

m is the ~aximum righting lever-

20

angle of
list

30

4
0

70 heel in degrees
angle of

vanishing
stability

Figure
2
A list reduces the righting levers and the range of stability when heeled towards the listed side.
When heeled in the opposite direction, righting levers are increased.
Si~plified stability data
Simplified stability data were originally intended for use in small ships, but data in that form may
also be found in some larger ships. Each of the several different presentations shows the ship's
stability as adequate or inadequate to meet the recommended criteria for intact stability for
passenger and cargo ships under 100 metres in length or, in the case of larger ships, the criteria
laid down by the Administration.
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Data necessary to maintain sufficient intact stability under service conditions to enable the
ship to withstand the critical damage assumptions of SOLAS would be provided in passenger
ships.
Trim and list
Trim calculations using moments about the centre of flotation or trimming tables were covered in
IMO model course 7.03, Officer in charge of a navigational watch. These methods are suitable
only in cases where the change in displacement is sufficiently small so that there are no large
chanqes.inthe position of the centre of flotation or the value of MGT. When large changes in
displacement are involved, as, for example, in planning the loading of a ship, the following
method should be used.
Figure 3 shows a ship on an even keel with longitudinal centres of buoyancy and gravity
indicated. The weight and buoyancy forces form a couple, called the trimming moment, equal to
the product of the displacement and the horizontal separation between Band G, in this case
acting to trim the ship by the stem. The ship will trim until the centre of buoyancy of the new
underwater volume is in the same vertical line as G, which is fixed.

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