A team at the 2005 ISAF Team Racing World Championship narrowly avoids capsizing.

The common definition for capsized refers to when a boat or ship is tipped over until inverted. The act of reversing a capsized vessel is called righting. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3008x2000, 2575 KB) Summary photo by cathy giacomini, my fiance, sitting next to me, who wanted this image posted to this article Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3008x2000, 2575 KB) Summary photo by cathy giacomini, my fiance, sitting next to me, who wanted this image posted to this article Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... A boat is a craft or vessel designed to float on, and provide transport over, water. ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of deep water navigation. ...

In sailboat racing, a capsized boat has certain special rights, as it cannot manouvre. A boat is deemed capsized when the mast is touching the water, rather than when it has fully turned turtle. Good racers can often recover from a capsize with minimal loss of time.

If a capsized vessel has sufficient floatation to prevent sinking, it may recover on its own ('self-righting') if the stability is such that it is not stable inverted. Small dinghies often capsize in the normal course of use and can normally be recovered by the crew. Some types of dingy are occasionally deliberately capsized as it can be the fastest means of draining water from the boat.

In a storm, even a large vessel may be rolled by being hit broadside by a large wave, or pitchpoled stem over stern in extreme waves. This is normally catastrophic leading to dismasting due to the drag on the rigging as the boat rolls in a yacht, through to outright sinking and massive loss of life in a ship. Among ship types, the RORO is more prone to capsize due to a design feature of that class of ferry: large open car decks near to the water line. A modern yacht A yacht (From Dutch Jacht meaning hunt) was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries. ... Skaugran Oslo Loading a Ro Ro passenger car ferry The Cetus Leader A Canadian RORO Ferry A PCC ships starboard side showing side ramp. ...

A capsized kayak may be righted with an eskimo roll. Inuit seal hunter in a kayak, armed with a harpoon. ... The Eskimo Roll is the act of uprighting a capsized kayak or canoe by use of the paddle and body motion. ...

A Motor life boat is designed to be self righting if capsized, but most other motorboats are not. US Coast Guard Motor Life Boat CG-36535 off Nehalem River MLB Station, c. ...

Training

An intermediate sailor is recommended to capsize their dinghy in a safe location with supervision, at least once to become acquainted with their boat's floating properties. The boat should then be righted, bailed out, and the sails reset, so that in the event of an uncontrolled capsize, the boat and its occupants are familiar with the procedure and may self recover. Dinghy of the schooner Adventuress A dinghy is a small utility boat attached to a larger boat. ...

A new type of capsization was created on Mothering Sunday 2007, by Matt "Shads" Crouch. The so-called partial capsize, occurs when a small volume of water enters the vessel in question, thus creating part of a capsize, but not a full one. The partial capsize is usually simple to rectify, with the humble bucket a common aid in such scenarios.

Famous capsizes

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• SMS Szent István, 1918, Austro-Hungarian capital warship, torpedoed, 89 dead.
• Yamato, 7 April 1945, 2,475 dead.
• Herald of Free Enterprise, 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers.
• Jan Heweliusz, 14 January 1993, leaving 54 people dead.
• Estonia, 28 September 1994, killing 852 passengers.
• La Joola 26 September 2002, Senegalese ferry, at least 1,863 dead
• SS Normandie aka USS Lafayette 9 February 1942, No casualties

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External links

• Capsize formula for displacement sailboats.