freeboard

With her low freeboard she could ship a lot of water fast.

This is in part due to the low freeboard on the hull.

The top tube gives only a few inches of freeboard.

It was small and light, with a low freeboard.

He glanced back and saw that the nearest had less than two feet of freeboard.

A beaver dam has a certain amount of freeboard above the water level.

The extra drainage led to a freeboard of 300 mm.

If the freeboard is too low, water will enter the boat through waves.

With just an inch of freeboard, it could have been a floating leaf.

Note the low freeboard and the large openings in the superstructure.

She was designed with a low freeboard, to minimise her profile.

This improved the freeboard just enough to keep the boat from swamping.

The ship was long and narrow and had a very low freeboard.

Their hulls were narrow with a large sheer and low freeboard.

Later rules included resistance factors, such as draught or freeboard.

These canoes were more stable, with greater freeboard and width.

The boats were of wood construction with low freeboard.

Their lower freeboard and oar ports would take on water in high seas.

In fact, he said, because of a destroyer's high freeboard forward it tended to back into the wind.

There are now about three inches of freeboard.

They only had some nine feet of freeboard forward, and could not make more than ten knots in rough weather.

The boat has low freeboard, with the topsides slightly flared.

This was made worse as early submarines also spent almost all of their time surfaced, and had little freeboard to begin with.

The pinnaces were so packed with men that they had only an inch or two of freeboard.

"Lot of freeboard forward and too much weight aft.