Sentence examples for angle of heel from inspiring English sources

One dial corresponing roughly to the bank-indicator on a plane, gives the list of the boat, the angle of heel.

If M is below G, the forces of weight and buoyancy will tend to increase the angle of heel, and the equilibrium will be unstable.

With an increase in the freeboard, righting levers (GZ) increase, metacentric height (GMT) increases, range of stability increases, deck edge immerses at greater angle of heel, dynamical stability increases, displacement decreases, and moment about the keel (KB) decreases.

If the many items of weight on a ship are not distributed with considerable precision, the ship will float at unwanted angles of heel (sideways inclination) and trim (endwise inclination).

These have included: the collision of the Norwegian Dream and the containership Ever Decent; the grounding of Norwegian Crown; the fire onboard Star Princess; the explosion and loss of power onboard the Queen Mary 2 off Spain in 2010, and a number of incidents involving large angles of heel when turning, including the Crown Princess and Grand Princess incidents.

"I bought them on eBay, and looking at the angle of the heels, I'd say they've seen some serious nightclub action with their previous owner 40 years ago".

The morphological features that were extracted from each of the footprint impressions are footprint length, footprint breadth, angle of walking, approximated heel radius etc.

The sail performed best at an apparent wind angle of about 55°, which is its design angle, and the effect of heel was more pronounced near the head than the foot.

It is shown that the effects of heel angle may be accounted for accurately using a simple geometric construction, with excellent agreement with wind-tunnel tests.

Cross-flooding ducts are used to equalize asymmetric flooding and, thus, to decrease the heel angle of a ship in an emergency.

Consider, too, that larger feet means larger heels, which in turn means more complex rotational angle-of-entry calculations -- undertaken, again, by a less flexible, and generally heavier, body.