Summer draft

Summer draft is a naval term for the worst-case loaded draft a ship can have. This draft is corrected for the worst-case seasonal conditions (summer in this case). During summer the water is warmer, and thus less dense and expands slightly: see Thermal expansion. This makes ships float deeper in the water. Summer draft is the opposite of Light ship condition.

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gollark: In the UK, a million plus a half would just be 1,000,000.5.
gollark: Commas and decimal points being swapped is an EU thing.
gollark: We still use . as a decimal point in Britain. What do you *think* we did?
gollark: They're both sort of right!
gollark: English has a gender neutral pronoun by accident. Fun!
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