Stability 4: What's Upsetting

Two Types of Events That Can Ruin Your Day

A video camera catches this anchored sailboat heeling over when a hurricane-force squall hit a port in Australia. She quickly righted herself.

The author is a retired naval architect. He once testified as an expert witness in a case involving a ship that capsized and sank. This is the fourth installment of an 11-part series explaining stability to a lay …