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This ferry is 150m long.


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Bertram weather!!! LOL!

Like Rawleigh said, just have to pull her back a couple hundred and watch the white ones. WooHoo! EarleyBird

I’d rather sit comfortably in my magnanimous yacht, with good company, sipping my favorite drink and eating my favorite dish. After all, you can’t go out in 8 Beaufort, or you risk it to be your last ride...
After 6 or 7 there is a small craft advisory anyway.

Yannis

You call that bad weather. LOL

Wavelength and wave height the same, not nice at all

I used to not be afraid of weather like that (not quite like that but you know what I mean...) I will say every year older I get I seem to gain more respect for things that are potentially dangerous.

Yannis, is that where you do your boating?

2006 leaving Durban, South Africa doing 22kts on this ship heading to the East Coast. She was one of eight, 958 feet long (292 meters) I was Chief Engineer on her for 20 years, and was away from home for 4 months.Twin Engine steam turbines 60,000 shp each one. At 125RPM she would top out at 34kts. That night we were in a head sea and the 22 feet in diameter propellers we’re cavitating. Captain slowed her down to 18kts, then 15 it’s. Bilge alarm went off in the Engineroom for #1 Cargo hold, forward of the wheelhouse. Engineer on watch sent a man to investigate carrying a radio and I heard him say there was over 15 feet of water in #1. Shortly later the Chief Mates porthole was blown out. In this picture his stateroom is the double windows under the port side of the Bridge windows 80 feet above the waterline. I went up to #1 hold. When I arrived I could see seawater pouring into #1. If you look forward of the Deck House you can see two fans P&S. They were gone. Captain decided to turn the ship around, go back to Durban for repairs, not going thousands of miles with two 6’ holes in the weather deck and no window where the Mate sleeps. When we turned she ain’t no 31 Bertram I would swear you could of almost walk on the bulkhead (wall). Three times she rolled before it was behind us. That fellas was rough, the worst by far after 30 years of sailing. Don’t think your cocktails and appetizers would of fared to well that night. EarleyBird

After 45 years running offshore my advice it to pick one, use it frequently.


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Nice story. I’ve also heard a few others, equally...destabilizing! We have a lot of seafarers in Greece, sit down with them over some wine and you’ll hear a lot...pick a subject: bad weather, women, port stories, contraband, you name it...

Frank, yes, only I wait for it to calm down a bit. In the summer it’s rare to be full calm though. In the winter too !
Rick, good advice, I’ll pick one and start practicing. A washing machine is equally effective too !
Mike, I hadn't thought of that, but if you say so...!