Surface area is of critical, urgent, overarching importance, to the exclusion of
virtually all other design criteria, to the guy whose future responsibility it will be
to annually scrape the barnacles off and repaint the hull.
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Just divide a boat's sail area in square feet by its wetted surface area in square feet (SA/WS = SA ÷ WS),
A D/L ratio is calculated by dividing a boat's displacement in long tons (2,240 pounds) by one one-hundredth of the waterline length (in feet) cubed.
The answer depends on what kind of boat and how big.
Depends how often you go on a boat
It is called listing when a boat leans. If the boat leans to port (left) then it is listing to port.