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It's not inaccurate though... The hull shape does reach a point of instability, at which point the hull shape changes.


There are hull forms (without the canting keels I mentioned) that have positive righting moment through 180 degrees. Life rafts are universally designed this way. For boats it's just not that necessary ultimately, as capsize is pretty dang rare on keel boats as a baseline. Vendee Globe et all are hardasses about it because they know if the worst happens, there's no rescue possible on a short timeline.




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