The Angle of Vanishing Stability
Stewart, Sally Lee A vessel can heel to one side, but at a certain point, it will no longer balance above water-and it capsizes. This is the angle of vanishing stability.
Thea West, a Northern Californian teenager growing up in the late sixties and early seventies, is one of five daughters trying to stay afloat amid the psychologically catastrophic dynamic between her parents-a covert and commanding mother and an ocean-yachtsman father. A talented sailor and bus...