Zusammenfassung
Summary
The stability of a floating body, in particular a vessel, is referred by the property to independently rise back to its initial position as response to a heeling moment. To evaluate static as well as dynamic stability the righting and the heeling levers must be known. Both largely depend on the knowledge of the geometry of the hull and superstructure and the sail area at tall ships respectively, so that a relevant survey of the vessel using terrestrial laser scanning improves reliability and significance of stability calculations. Using the example of a larger sailing vessel this is shown.