Marc Reiter wrote: >The British ton is the long ton, which is 2240 pounds, and the U.S. ton is the short ton which is 2000 pounds.
A long time ago, when I spent one year in a maritime school, I learnt that the long ton and short ton was created to calculate stability when shipping different wares. The long ton was used when loading grain, ore and other products that would fill the hold all the way to the outer skin, also between stringers and frames. The short ton was used when loading boxed products, that would not utilize this extra space in the holds. Might be that my old teacher, with 40 years of sailing, had it wrong, or that we have several definitions of long/short tons. The numbers seems to be the same as when we did the stability calculations tough. (Sadly, I changed schools after one year, and got stuck in the IT industry.. Probably would not have been sailing cats if I had stuck to it tough) Rolf Tornado NOR-10384 Group Home http://www.TheBeachcats.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beachcats/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
