We are booked on the Legend in a Balcony starboard side aft. Pretty much the very back corner of the ship. I have heard that there can be be a lot of vibration at the back of the ship, and I remember having my teeth rattled sitting in the back restaurant on the Glory. Anyone experienced that with your rooms in that area?
Thanks,
All propeller driven watercraft experience a condition called Prop Cavitation. Doesn't matter if its a runabout with an outboard or an oil super tanker. In certain conditions a vacuum forms on the back of the prop. Water rushes in to fill this vacuum and causes a vibration. The conditions, speed and design of the prop can increase or decrease the amount of cavitation.
It is a normal thing and NOTHING to worry about. I have had people mention the vibration in shaky voices while I hadn't even noticed it happening. The difference between knowing and unknowing.
Cruise ships weigh millions of pounds [GRT is a measure of space, not weight] Water is incompressible, moving millions of pounds using props that attempt to compress the incompressible is not done without some normal reaction.
