38ft single mast, fiberglass, fully riged, 2 set sails, 18hr.engen, mayby 10gl,fule in 75gl.tank, grose weight about 29,000 lbs., 135gl.water tank emty, maby, 1200lbs. needededs, junk-en-stuf ! Sitting on side, 30ft. deep. Add 10 weeks of fish,crabs,barnicls, slime, river-muck ! some dmage, starboard ,liing on port maybe hit and run. How much air-bag in side , plus outside too make boient in laymens terms pleas !
2006-08-24 10:14:01 · 2 answers · asked by cornelius p 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
If you assume the gross weight is 36000 pounds without the water, you will need to displace 500 cubic feet of water to make it float. In addition, that displacement needs to be uniform through the boat or it's going to list to one side or the other.
2006-08-24 10:45:52 · answer #1 · answered by richard Alvarado 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the formula, but if you displace all water inside the boat with air, the buoyancy should be the same as the boat had before it sank.
2006-08-24 19:21:20 · answer #2 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋