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What allows a boat to float?

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When you change the shape you are also changing the density of the object, like for instance if you take a paper boat and put it into water it will float, but if you shape something into a ball it becomes compact and will sink. that is because its weight is more than what the displaced water weighs.

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It is not the shape of a boat that makes it float. An empty cardboard box is able to float. For a vessel to float its gross weight must be displaced in the water, yet there must be ample freeboard left to prevent water coming inboard. Freeboard is the height from water level to the lowest point of the walls (gunnel) of the vessel.

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because of it's round shape

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