Which limit increased risk of hogging in long wooden ships?

💡 Explanation

Hogging, the flexing of a ship's hull, increases due to insufficient hull strength; lack of adequate cross-bracing reduces the ship's longitudinal rigidity because it cannot evenly distribute tensile and compressive forces, therefore the hull deforms, rather than bearing the loads jointly.

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