Regulations last checked for updates: Oct 18, 2024

Title 46 - Shipping last revised: Oct 15, 2024
§ 45.63 - Correction for sheer.

(a) The minimum summer freeboard must be increased by the deficiency, or may be decreased by the excess as limited by § 45.65, of sheer calculated from table 4, multiplied by:

0.75—(S/2L) where S is the total length of enclosed superstructures. Trunks are not included.
authority: 46 U.S.C. 5104,5108; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1
source: CGD 73-49R, 38 FR 12290, May 10, 1973, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 46 CFR 45.63