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Paravanes: An Alternate or Backup Stabilizing System for Trawlers

| November 21, 2008 | 3 Comments
Paravanes: An Alternate or Backup Stabilizing System for Trawlers

One key to successful long-distance passagemaking is ensuring maximum comfort and safety of the crew.  A factor that contributes to fatigue on long rides is excessive motion.  Granted, sometimes heavy seas make some level of pitch and roll unavoidable, but both hull design and specialized systems can minimize the motion.  Roll stabilization is now quite [...]

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