Sian Thomas wrote: > The first winter the Hamnavoe came into service there was a set of pictures > circulating where the bow seemed to disappear below the waves and the stern > stick right up. It looked horrific. However I spoke to someone who was on > the boat that day, and to the credit of the ship design, they said it wasn't > quite as bad as it looked from the outside! > > Incidentally on our Graemsay ferry film clip although it looks very rough, > I, too have often been on the boat when it is bouncing like that. It's > actually not too bad when it does its roching horse type motion from bow to > stern. The one that gets me is rocking side to side. Thankfully for > Graemsay it is only usually a 15 minute journey so I keep asking myself "how > bad can 15 minutes be...."? Today (Friday) is a bit windy (up to gale F8) and I see that North Ronaldsay has had its weekly ferry cancelled "due to adverse weather and tidal conditions" -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont> "Do you get virgin wool from ugly sheep?"