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    European inland waterway history, including the transfer of technology during the early industrial revolution; wooden boat construction on inland waterways; the history of opening bridges; and the L&LC.
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  1. maritime22

    I read somewhere that the theoretical maximum attainable speed of a displacement vessel is the square root of the waterline length times one point five. On a shallow canal of course many other factors mostly negative must be considered.

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      Pluto

      If you are interested in the French experiments of 1777, you should be able to download the published results at http://dx.doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-10974 . They were particularly looking at how large a canal tunnel needed to be as they were about to build the long tunnel at Riqueval on the St. Quentin Canal.

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