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Incline Test Now that Antara is in the water, it's difficult to imagine her as ever having been out of it! She's as snug as bug in a rug now that she is afloat in her medium. Checklists The first thing on our checklist now was a survey by the Director General of Shipping . The Goa representative came down to the yard and after a good look at the boat, advised us on the ext steps. So more surveys and documents coming up in the near future before we can start sailing. An interesting check and a first for me, was an incline experiment . It's done in order to check her stability; including the angle of vanishing stability or just how far the boat will roll and right herself. Most people panic at a incline greater than 10 degrees. Good thing I didn't know that when I sailed across the South Atlantic , when the average incline on our boat was 45 degrees! The test involves putting equal amounts of weight in places, two aft and two forward, symmetrical to the mas