Your vessel displaces 528 tons. The existing cargo has a center of gravity of 2.9 feet above the deck and weighs 28 tons. If you load 14 tons of ground tackle with an estimated center of gravity of 9 inches above the deck, what is the final height of the CG of the deck cargo?

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Option B: 2.18 feet. Summing vertical moments of deck cargo about the reference baseline: (28 tons × 2.9 ft) plus (14 tons × 0.75 ft), divided by the total cargo weight of 42 tons, yields a final center of gravity height of 2.18 feet.