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As a rule, ships of most configurations, when drifting in calm water with negligible current, will lie in which orientation?

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Question 1 of 27070

As a rule, ships of most configurations, when drifting in calm water with negligible current, will lie in which orientation?

🔍 Key Concepts

• How wind pressure acts on a ships above-water profile (superstructure, bow, stern) • How the underwater shape (underwater hull form) affects how a vessel drifts • The idea of a vessels weather vane tendency in calm seas with little or no current

💭 Think About

• Think about which end of the ship usually has more area exposed to the wind above the waterline, and how that would make the vessel turn when drifting • Consider what happens to a small boat or even a floating log in a light breezewhich way do they tend to point relative to the wind? • Ask yourself which orientation would be the most stable balance between wind force on the hull above the water and resistance of the underwater hull

✅ Before You Answer

• Compare which has more windage on a typical ship: forward (bow/superstructure) or aft (stern) • Visualize the ship as a weather vane: the lighter, higher-windage end tends to be blown downwind; the deeper, more resistant end tends to stay upwind • Eliminate any choice that would make the ships most wind-exposed structures sit directly broadside (beam) to the wind, unless you can justify why that would be stable

Question 1 of 27070

As a rule, ships of most configurations, when drifting in calm water with negligible current, will lie in which orientation?

The stern will be to the wind

The bow will be to the wind

With the wind on the quarter

The beam will be to the wind

Question 1 / 2707066636ee728f7522a1c518281

Question 1 of 2707066636ee728f7522a1c518281

As a rule, ships of most configurations, when drifting in calm water with negligible current, will lie in which orientation?

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Question 1 of 27070

As a rule, ships of most configurations, when drifting in calm water with negligible current, will lie in which orientation?