Translations:Ship Hydrostatics/22/en

The MCT plays a mayor role in the load condition planning, since it gives information about the effect of displacing any load along the ship. The actual MCT is computed according the transversal gravity center to metacenter distance, GML, obviously requiring the gravity center position. However, as it is a common practice in naval architecture, the distance of such metacenter to the buoyancy center, BML, is considered similar to such GML ($$GML / BML \simeq 1$$). Please note that is only valid for the longitudinal direction ($$GMT / BMT \neq 1$$).