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A fishing trawler for example, always has adisplacementhullfor load-carrying capacity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At low speeds every hull acts as adisplacementhull, meaning that the buoyant force is mainly responsible for supporting the craft.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When combined with the slower speeds of adisplacementhull, these features give such vessels far greater range and economy than similarly sized planing boats.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is the opposite of the case in a traditional ordisplacementhullvessel, which derives positive stability from having its center of buoyancy above the center of gravity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The requirement for good performance in rough seas dictated the use of a round-bottomeddisplacementhullrather than the flat-bottomed planing hull that was more usual for small, high-speed boats.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For vessels with displacement hulls, the hull speed is determined by, among other things, the waterline length.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Monohull boats generally rely on ballast for stability, and usually are displacement hulls.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, with the rising cost of fuel and the lower fuel consumption (though also lower speed) offered by displacement hulls, they are gaining popularity among some buyers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Canoes are displacement hulls: the longer the waterline relative to its displacement, the faster it can be paddled.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.