Displacement

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trev
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Displacement

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Does anyone know a simple way of measuring, or better still calculating, the displacement of a boat?
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Mavanier
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Re: Displacement

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Ask the crane driver?
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ash
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Re: Displacement

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A big bath, and a friend called Archimedes.

More seriously, if you access to a drawing of her lines, then you could calculate.

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