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Boats are designed in a ‘bottom-heavy’ way.


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The bottom of the ships are designed in a heavy way for two reasons:

  1. One is, to keep the centre of gravity of the ship below (remains low) the centre of buoyancy.
  2. Other is to keep the ship in a stable equilibrium position.

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