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Old 07-05-2007
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Rocker Stoppers etc.

Rocker stpooers etc. won't stop you swinging round your mooring, they do however damp your rolling.

Rigging a small stay sail will have two effects though. it will weather **** the boat into the wind and if it's blowy will keep you there. It will also profide a surprising amount of roll damping.


Further on the subject of rocker stoppers, claims that they can reduce your roll by more than 20 % should be treated with caution. They rely on the roll of the vessel exerting a force on the damper plate and the physics of roll motion dictate that this type of damper can not have a 50% reduction in roll Motion unless suspended at the end of an enormously long pole.


Tim Abram
Bsc.(Hons) Graduate Member of the Royal Instute of Naval Architects.
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