1. Regulations
  2. title 46
  3. chapter I-i1
  4. part 45
  5. subpart C
  6. § 45.63

View all text of Subpart C [§ 45.51 - § 45.77]

§ 45.63 - Correction for sheer.

(a) The minimum summer freeboard must be increased by the deficiency, or may be decreased by the excess as limited by § 45.65, of sheer calculated from table 4, multiplied by:

0.75—(S/2L) where S is the total length of enclosed superstructures. Trunks are not included.

AUTHORITY: 46 U.S.C. 5104, 5108; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

SOURCE: CGD 73-49R, 38 FR 12290, May 10, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

CITE AS: 46 CFR 45.63