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10th June 2016, 03:18 PM
#31
Re: Bay of Biscay
Originally Posted by
John Albert Evans
Why did we do it?
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10th June 2016, 03:20 PM
#32
Re: Bay of Biscay
Ivan, we never though anything about it, we just accepted it.
John
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10th June 2016, 03:33 PM
#33
Re: Bay of Biscay
It rocked us to sleep that is why.
Brian
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10th June 2016, 04:38 PM
#34
Re: Bay of Biscay
Originally Posted by
Chris Allman
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!
Last edited by Doc Vernon; 10th June 2016 at 09:27 PM.
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10th June 2016, 08:19 PM
#35
Re: Bay of Biscay
Originally Posted by
Captain Kong
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!
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10th June 2016, 08:37 PM
#36
Re: Bay of Biscay
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
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10th June 2016, 10:00 PM
#37
Re: Bay of Biscay
Originally Posted by
vic mcclymont
Remember arriving Cape Town regards
Vic
eeh Vic tha's gone all American, don't you mean port/stb'd port/stb'd
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11th June 2016, 01:27 AM
#38
Re: Bay of Biscay
Originally Posted by
John Albert Evans
HI John.
I wonder how much today's teenagers would pay for a trip like that, better then the fairground rides.
Cheers des
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11th June 2016, 01:37 AM
#39
Re: Bay of Biscay
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
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11th June 2016, 04:43 AM
#40
Re: Bay of Biscay
Originally Posted by
John Albert Evans
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
Our Ship was our Home
Our Shipmates our Family
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