The design of the royal Yacht Britania

[MikeJohns]

Kindly made available by RINA this is a series of papers on the design of the Britania

http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk...historydoc.htm

[JimCooper]

Ah thats where my taxes went! Sorry mike wasn't meaning to be rude, looks very interesting, looked at the bit on props, too much talk of nodes for an old seaman, our engineer always cursed the prop vibration at the best towing speed for the nets, they tried balancing it and it got worse, we lost a blade and got a 4 blader under insurance and it worked like a charm the fitters talked of nodes and harmonics and such too. Should have had the queens designers on the job from the start eh!