Any value in pursuing a higher deck cabin?

[fleckle]

Another good analogy is a seesaw (or teeter-totter).

 

 

Both ends move up and down a good distance, while the part in the center moves only slightly.

 

On a cruise ship, the passengers at the front of the ship also get more jarring than the passengers at the back because the front is the part of the ship that crashes into the waves, although they claim that the new design of the Edge class ships is supposed to help reduce that.

                   

Edited August 9, 2019 by fleckle

[RedIguana]

On 8/8/2019 at 1:39 PM, ECCruise said:

The difference between pitch vs. roll makes all the difference in the world.

 

If the ship is rolling (left to right and right to left) the location makes not a lot of difference.  You will feel it pretty much everywhere.

If the movement is pitch (up and down at the bow) your position on the ship makes a huge difference.  Your experience, for example, on deck 12 all the way forward will be night and day from the experience on deck 4 midship.  Not even close.  Much worse forward and high.

You feel the pitch (up and down) more at the bow, less at the stern, and the least amidships. For roll, the effect decreases the lower the deck, and is least on the lowest deck dead amidship (centerline). Yaw is a whole another monster that we will ignore for simplicity sake.  Pitch is pretty much strictly a function of wave height, it does not matter what deck you are on if the bow is lifting up and down 20 feet, you go up and down 20 ft. Roll is very much height dependent. Whereas you may be displaced 5 feet in a 10 second periodic roll on deck 3, the same degree of roll may diplace you 40 feet on deck 12 (no I am not doing the math...Calculus is too many years in my past..yeah it technically trig). 

[varoo]

51 minutes ago, RedIguana said:

......... Roll is very much height dependent. Whereas you may be displaced 5 feet in a 10 second periodic roll on deck 3, the same degree of roll may diplace you 40 feet on deck 12 (no I am not doing the math...Calculus is too many years in my past..yeah it technically trig). 

 

LOL!  No calculus, trig, or even grade school math needed here.

Anyone can stand up a book, a vase, a bottle, a potted plant -- just about any object, rock it side to side, and easily see for oneself how the top moves a lot more than the bottom.