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Oscillations of solid bodies like boats interacting with liquids like water are commonly studied in the marine science community but less so in the broader mechanical sciences. This paper presents a clear and simple exposition of a basic problem in this field, for a general nonspecialist audience. A two dimensional analysis is developed from first principles of small free oscillations of a boat in...