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Posted: 04 Jan 2007, 23:18
by AndyMinx
Wow! Not alot else to say, thanks for sharing!
Just a little thing; what's 'Beam on'?
Cheers,
Posted: 04 Jan 2007, 23:49
by jonesey2k
A right angle to the keel of a ship.
Re: Fancy a cruise in the Med?
Posted: 05 Jan 2007, 00:26
by Kevin Farnell
calypso wrote:Flying in that weather must have been .. er interesting!
I think I'd rather fly in it, than sail in it :sicky:.
Kevin
Posted: 05 Jan 2007, 09:08
by Nigel H-J
Odd.. the next thing I thought of was that I didn't want to abandon ship with no clobber on!! There are limits!!

Strange how the mind works when finding yourself in a near emergency isn't it Dave.
Only once been aboard on a ferry across the English Channel in very rough conditions at night, on this particular crossing the bows frequently came down hard on another wave coming up to meet it!!........The whole ship juddered as it impacted on the crest, Can imagine how those passengers must have felt.
Posted: 05 Jan 2007, 12:57
by Keith Jones
Hmmm. Reminds me of the ship (SS Rangatira) that took my colleagues and I to the Falklands in '82. The stabilizers had packed up just after leaving Southampton, as did the Osmosis system for the water. Later on in the voyage, the rudders became inoperative: I'm so glad they didn't tell us they had to pick their way through a minefield just off Stanley the night before we docked in the harbour!