The world today

[Des Taff Jenkins]

As we all know the world is in a funny faze. Massive floods in Europe and the far East, the likes no one has seen or recorded before, wild Fires in countries that never had them before, even down here in Cooma we are experiencing odd weather, last week nice Spring weather all the blossoms out, night before last snow all around and 9 degrees below, we have a little bloke reading the weather forecast and it's funny to watch him jump around trying his best to interpret the weather, funny thing is he always gets Cooma right.
We put up with some decent weather when at sea, but I wouldn't like to sail into one of the latest typhoons or Hurricanes they are having these days.
Des

[j.sabourn]

Not supposed to get into them Des ,never were, today when they have satellites recording the movements and speeds of the centre of such all prudent seafarers like of old take action to try and keep in the safe quadrant. The old seamen of yore used to stop the ship , face the wind and the centre if remember correctly was two points on your starboard hand, opposite for the Southern hemisphere. Today with forecasting there is no excuse to take ample action at sea to avoid. The poor people ashore have no such options. As regards the past and today news world wide is a mobile away and much more fluent, bad weather as such was never reported like it is today , but mostly it has always been similar most likely.
Cheers And back to the housekeeping . JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
House work all completed and shipshape.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Des to some extent I have to agree with you, but weather patterns are always acting a bit odd.
Bit on the net today, the biggest wave ever seen it said.
This wave was hitting the shore and said to be 4 meters tall!!!!!!!!
If that was the biggest then obviously the one who saw it has never seen real waves.

So just stay calm and carry on.

[j.sabourn]

John every one has their own idea on how to measure the height of a wave. If on a weather ship and sending in reports to the hydrographic office , swell height and wave height are 2 distinct oddities and can come from different directions. Both are measured separately, when both are going in the same direction that’s when you see the big uns. 4 metres is a tiddler in this case .,Even in the North Sea where the seas are much shorter than the Atlantic I have seen a rig report a sea of a hundred feet going through its legs and he is in a position to make a more accurate judgement , think if you had a hundred feet sea going through your legs apart from the possible likeable sensation would also want to be out of the following one and away clear of you.Cheers JS

[Mo Docherty]

No one will have any worries if we keep on appeasing uncle sam and annoying russia

[Des Taff Jenkins]

John.
Back in the earlie fifties the Queen Mary hit a wave that smashed her wheelhouse windows, and they where 90 feet above sea level I have no doubt that waves bigger than that occurs' but have not been not recorded, I read once that some of the waves hitting I think it was Greenland that had traveled up from the Southern Ocean threw boulders as big as small cars about half a mile inland. I know We hit some biggies when we were taking logs from Canada to the UK.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

I recall going through the 'Great Australian Bight' on a 10,000 cargo ship.
The waves were so high and big we thought we were in a submarine.

But the problem with these people who report such is the fact they have no concept of real life.

The saddest part though is that there are those who will think it is true