Heavy Seas......

[dickh]

How about this for rough weather:- <A target="_blank" HREF=http://tv-antenna.com/heavy-seas/>http://tv-antenna.com/heavy-seas/</A>

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I'd rather be sailing... /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

 

[Sybarite]

When I was 4 years old, the family emigrated to Canada. We left in November and ran into terrible storms. Frequently the captain had to leave the table to control the boat's speed and for a long time we were only averaging 3 knots. At one stage there was an engine breakdown and we had to get engineers from Iceland to help repair the boat. In the end it was a three week crossing from Belfast to Montreal ! (including a stopover in Glasgow).

My recollection was of watching waves that seemed to me like those in the photos. However as we were going up the St Lawrence the Captain, later Commodore of the fleet ,confided to my father that it had been the worst weather of his career and secondly, the ship's back was broken !

I was seasick on this trip and that - touch wood - was the last time.

John

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[david_e]

Hhhhmmm.....SWMBO has gone on a booze cruise from Hull to Rotterdam, think she's forgot to take the Stugeron, oh dear!

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[steve_cronin]

Holy.....

#*@?!

The regulator wouldn't permit what I wanted to say but I may go home this lunchtime to change my underwear.

Makes swanning around in a plastic bathtub look like nothing to do with seafaring doesn't it?

Steve Cronin

<hr width=100% size=1>The above is, like any other post here, only a personal opinion

 

[cameronke]

Fabulous site, breathtaking pics, gave me goose bumps! Sitting here looking across at Rothesay seems so tame......

Thanks Dickh

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[bedouin]

Oh the wonders of digital photography - who said the camera cannot lie?

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[kilkerr1]

Saints and angels preserve us. I feel a new favourite passtime coming on, something like macrame...

BTW, did you notice <A target="_blank" HREF=http://tv-antenna.com/canadian-ice/>these guys (last photo on the page, scroll right down)</A>? No girlie offshore breathable oilies with seven layers of thermals for them, oh no. I love Canadians...

<hr width=100% size=1><A target="_blank" HREF=http://kilkerr.members.easyspace.com/santateresa_pics.htm>Santa Teresa and other t'ings</A>

 

[Rowana]

Re: Ice!

Seeing the pictures of the ice reminded me of a time when I was on tankers. We loaded in Gothenburg for a trip up throught the Baltic and up to the north end of Sweden. It was a bit rough on the way up, and we ended up loking like that ship on the website. I've a picture of me standing sideways on the flying bridge, as there wasn't enough room to stand straight on because of the ice. The whole of the front of the midships acommodation was about 2 inches thick in ice.

Anyway, we got up there & discharged, and on the way back down, the heat from the acommodation started to melt the ice from the inside. As we got out to sea and started going up and down a bit, this whole sheet of ice, 3 decks high, fell down onto the foredeck with the most enormous crash I've ever heard in my life! Talk about needing clean underpants!!

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[anchorhandler]

Hmmmm....
Funny how that 'Maersk' AHTS vessel (the little blue funnel'ed tug-like vessel) seemes to appear in three different action shots????
The skipper must have a real sadistic streak in him....
Simon

<hr width=100% size=1>I'v got 2 ears.2 eyes and 1 mouth....if only i could use them in that proportion!

 

[DeeGee]

look at Offshore Newfoundland
Heavy Seas Page 3
Image 1 and 6.

With such fantastic pictures, why send any fakes????

<hr width=100% size=1>Black Sugar - the sweetest of all

 

[AndrewB]

The camera cannot lie?

I think that the pictures of the S/R Puget Sound are probably genuine. There was a posting on the CWBB forum a couple of years back when these first appeared, by a guy who seemed to have first hand knowledge.

The text might seem to suggest that the S/R Puget Sound was near Valdez, Alaska at the time. In fact NOAA records report it as being off the coast of Washington State, 200 miles or so from Vancouver, on the 22nd October, the date of one of the pictures. It is a matter of record that Vancouver experienced an exceptionally violent storm on the 23rd, with extensive power failures and damage.

Maybe you would be more convinced by a video than static pictures? There are a couple showing extreme seas off Alaska HERE for anyone who wants to see what a yacht hove-to looks like in an F9-10.

 

[Nauti Fox]

During the 1970's I served on the British Navigator (225.000)and while off Madagaskar we ran into a hurricane.Once it all subsided they found both anchors missing!Not all bad though,I spent the next 3 weeks on deck repairing pipelines etc.


<hr width=100% size=1>No dear,the water goes in the other one.