Why did we do it?Quote:
Originally Posted by John Albert Evans
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Why did we do it?Quote:
Originally Posted by John Albert Evans
Ivan, we never though anything about it, we just accepted it.
John
It rocked us to sleep that is why.
Brian
Hi Cris, Same sort of trip on the Sarah Bowater.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Allman
Fun times!
Yes just wedge yourself in ,(a lifejacket was good for that-also pretty useful if you heard the abandon ship alarm ) and, forget about counting sheep ,but try to count the number of screws rolling about in the false deckhead above your bunk,thoughtfully and deliberately left in there-it was a tradition apparently-by the shipbuilders carpenters and fitting out team The barskets!Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Kong
Remember arriving Cape Town told anchor off until a berth became available. There was a heavy swell, we rolled nd rolled. Our sister ship Clan Ross, arrived anchored off, it was like watching a set of windscreen wipers, the pair of us rolled left, right, left right. We were the only two that really rolled, we were both light ship.
regards
Vic
eeh Vic tha's gone all American, don't you mean port/stb'd port/stb'dQuote:
Originally Posted by vic mcclymont
HI John.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Albert Evans
I wonder how much today's teenagers would pay for a trip like that, better then the fairground rides.
Cheers des
HI Vernon.
Those Cape rollers are the longest swells on earth started in the Antarctic and went up to the Arctic, some would hit South Africa, but most with no land to stop them would go right up through the South and North Atlantic, as you say you couldn't really see them they were so wide. On one trip I was on the buoy off Sable Island registered waves of one hundred feet. If those people on the Northern beaches only realized that what hit them were baby's compared to the Cape rollers.
Cheers Des
So did Fair Isle John and that beautiful knitwear was from some of the best sheep for the purpose.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Albert Evans
Richard