Bay of Biscay

[Ivan Cloherty]

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John.

Why did we do it?

[John Albert Evans]

Ivan, we never though anything about it, we just accepted it.

John

[Captain Kong]

It rocked us to sleep that is why.
Brian

[Dennis McGuckin]

Cant remember the number of times I sailed through the Bay of Biscay - . Very glad to get to Liverpool that trip.

Hi Cris, Same sort of trip on the Sarah Bowater.
Fun times!

[Gulliver]

It rocked us to sleep that is why.Brian

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!

[vic mcclymont]

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

[Ivan Cloherty]

Remember arriving Cape Town regards
Vic

eeh Vic tha's gone all American, don't you mean port/stb'd port/stb'd

[Des Taff Jenkins]

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John.

HI John.
I wonder how much today's teenagers would pay for a trip like that, better then the fairground rides.
Cheers des

[Des Taff Jenkins]

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

[Richard Quartermaine]

The Pentland Firth Took some beating when it was rough.

John Albert Evans.

So did Fair Isle John and that beautiful knitwear was from some of the best sheep for the purpose.
Richard