. Forest and stream . of Buoyancy is, the higher wdl the Meta t enter eliinb upthe mast, and the reverse, the nearer the Center of Buoyancy ap-proaches the Center of Gravity, the lower the Meta Onter will dropon the mast. Hence, a vessel kuo-wn to have a high Meta Center hasa long lever upon the ends of vvhieh the two righting forces act asthe accompanying sketch will make clear. A boat with a long leverwill have a stronger tendency to right herself than another with ashorter arm. Such a boat will fly back quicklv. She will be com-paratively quick, short, jerky, hard in her motions, and known
. Forest and stream . of Buoyancy is, the higher wdl the Meta t enter eliinb upthe mast, and the reverse, the nearer the Center of Buoyancy ap-proaches the Center of Gravity, the lower the Meta Onter will dropon the mast. Hence, a vessel kuo-wn to have a high Meta Center hasa long lever upon the ends of vvhieh the two righting forces act asthe accompanying sketch will make clear. A boat with a long leverwill have a stronger tendency to right herself than another with ashorter arm. Such a boat will fly back quicklv. She will be com-paratively quick, short, jerky, hard in her motions, and known as astifl- boat, On the other hand, a narrow boat like the modern cutter, whenheeled over, will shift her Center of Buoyancy only a small distancebecause she scarcely immerses more width and ouly a little volumeto leeward, and the state of affairs when upright is les-i disturbed. Avertical through the Center of Buoyancy when shifted to the center ofthe body heeled down, yvill cut the mast low: that is to say, her Meta. Center is low, and the distance between that and the Center of Gravitywill be small. She will have a small Metacentric Heigiit bv with the first example. The lever upon the ends ofwhich thetwo righting forces act, will be short, and her lemlency to fly backcorrespondingly moderate. She will be easy, measured and compla-eenc in her behavior, and known as a tender or cranky boat, atleast at the beginning of her heeling as long as the lever remamsshort. It is manifest that like results can be produced in both the easescited, if we conceive small forcfs acting at the ends of the long leverin the sloop, and large forces at tiie ends of the short lever iu the nar-row boat. But we have seen that these forces consist of the boatsweight at one end aud the buoyancy of the displaced water at theother, this latter being also exactly equal to the boats weight, as weknow from very faniiliar laws in physics. Hence, the heavy displace-ment of a cutter, brought about
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