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Most of your vessel's superstructure is forward. How will the vessel lie when drifting with no way on?

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Most of your vessel's superstructure is forward. How will the vessel lie when drifting with no way on?

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• Windage and superstructure – how the part of the ship above the water acts like a sail in the wind • Where the center of lateral resistance (underwater hull) is located vs. the center of wind pressure (superstructure) • How a vessel tends to orient itself when drifting with no way on (no propulsion, minimal rudder effect)

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• Picture the ship from the side: most of the "sail area" (superstructure) is forward. Ask yourself: does that make the bow or the stern get pushed more by the wind? • If the wind pushes more on the forward part of the ship, which way will the bow tend to swing relative to the wind direction? Into the wind or away from it? • When the bow swings one way, where does that put the wind relative to the ship: coming from ahead, from the side (beam), or from somewhere abaft the beam?

✅ Before You Answer

• Be clear what "no way on" means for rudder effectiveness and steering control • Identify which end of the vessel (bow or stern) has greater windage because the superstructure is mostly forward • Decide whether the vessel will tend to weathervane (point into the wind) or lie more broadside (beam to the wind) based on that windage arrangement

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Most of your vessel's superstructure is forward. How will the vessel lie when drifting with no way on?

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