Hydrodynamics

Hydro - Water, Dynamic - Moving: The properties of a boat and how it interacts with the water when the boat moves through it.

[edit] Hydrodynamic Properties Include

• Drag or resistance
• Directional stability
• Center of lateral resistance
• Coefficients and ratios
• Volume distribution
  • Fishform
  • Swedeform
  • Symmetrical hull
• Fineness
• Weathercocking
• Hull speed

• See also Hydrostatics
  
• See Wave for wave dynamics and elated information