Photos from the South Atlantic - courtsey of Das_Boot

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Apparently blowing F12

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It is actualy the north sea one of our Masters took the pictures He is from Cape Town. Says that everyone else on the boat (Poms) were crapping themselves but not him. He says it is normal for where he comes from (South Atlantic). I disagree with the F12 though. I believe the worst it got was gusting 11 with a steady 9. If I remember rightly it was last month (Feb) somewhere around the feroes.
 
In the second piccie you can just see the wake from BrendanS's 21ft sportsboat as he speeds off in search of an adrenalin rush!
 
Re: Reckon it axschually...

If you cant tell the real thing maybe you are a 12 year old who has just got a new computer and thought YBW was Youth BeWare the new pop group.
 
Agree with your estimates. I've had the pleasure of a couple of years of winter gales in those waters. Once in a sustained storm for 36 hours, and over F12 for more than 5 hours. The ship handled it well except for a couple of freaks and on one ocassion fell off a large wave. Our ship was much bigger than the one pictured and there's no way we could have continued except by running with the sea on the quarter.

I have to say it was one of my most enjoyable experiences. At the height of the storm I was in the radio room and called my sister who didn't like the sound of the shrieking wind and asked me to call back when things were a bit quieter.
 
Sorry but it should be the North Atlantic

Sorry, that was all the wrong boat. Here is the exclusive picture of the real Das Boot and by the way it was in the _North_ Atlantic.

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Re: Sorry but it should be the North Atlantic

If you right click on the url and then select copy short cut then paste into adress bar it works.
Now that is a fine boat.
Cut through the hull just forward of the conning tower, keeping only the forward section whack on a mast and you have my boat.
 
Re: Sorry but it should be the North Atlantic

>Cut through the hull just forward of the conning tower, keeping only the forward

You still have the deck gun then?
 
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