46 CFR 173.025
§ 173.025 Additional intact stability standards: Counterballasted vessels.
United States · 46 CFR — Shipping · Status: effective
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- 46 CFR 173.025, § 173.025 Additional intact stability standards: Counterballasted vessels, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/230499
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(a) Each vessel equipped to counterballast while lifting must be shown by design calculations to be able to withstand the sudden loss of the hook load, in each condition of loading and operation and at each combination of hook load and crane radius.
(b) When doing the calculations required by this section, the hook load and counterballast heeling arms and vessel righting arms, as plotted on graph 173.025, must define areas that satisfy the following equation:
Where—
(c) Each heeling arm curve must be defined by—
Where—
Where—
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.