There is a picture on the wonderful Orkneycommunities site showing something along these lines: http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/imagelibrary/picture/number2594.asp?st=hamnavoe Better still is the link in one of the comments below the picture, showing a movie of the boat leaving Hoy Sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhsBfNxWILg It was lovely on Tuesday though. Cheers, Steven --- Steven Heddle, Newington, Holm Road, Kirkwall, Orkney KW15 1PY --- E: [email protected] W: http://www.stevenheddle.co.uk --- T: 01856 877119 M: 07719 762165 F: 08714 335639 Skype: therealkw15 ----- Original Message ----- From: Sian Thomas To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Ship Plotter - Orkney 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...."? Sian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Royce Perry" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Ship Plotter - Orkney >I have seen pictures of you "bit of breeze and slight swell". Our email > friend that lives in the Highlands (grew up on Orkney) was a captain on > the > offshore service ships for many years. I have a picture he sent me years > ago > that one of his crew took from the bridge of their ship with a camera with > a > long lens. They and one of their sister ships had left Scotland and were > headed across the Pentland to a rig they were going to move the anchors > for. The other ship is about a half mile ahead,,in the picture she has her > bow buried in a wave clear up to the middle of the bridge tower. I don't > mean spray,,,she was half way under water! Her stern was sticking up so > high > that the screws were out of the water and heeled over so far to port that > her starboard thrusters were showing.!! Billies caption was "Just another > day at the office in the Pentland"..........errrrrrr,,,,,ahhhhh,,,No > Thanks! > R > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > Behalf Of Sian Thomas > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Ship Plotter - Orkney > > What - you let a bit of a breeze and a slight swell put you off? You have > to be tough to live on a wee island - tough and with a large freezer to > enable one to look at the boat bouncing across the waves from the confort > of > > the conservatory with no need to venture forth for several days! > > Sian > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Royce Perry" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:11 PM > Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Ship Plotter - Orkney > > >> Jeepers!!!! Just had a look at his video clip of your wee Graemsay coming >> across in the winter!! Forget the light house!!! I am a flat lander!!!... >> A >> DRY flat lander! That water is neither Flat nor Dry!! >> <goes to find a towel to dry off and get warm again> >> R >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Orcadia Group Photo Album http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Bit of a breeze today so I see the Hamnavoe has two sailings cancelled, ditto pentland ferries, and a couple of the North Isles boats. Winter has come early...... Sian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Heddle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:13 AM Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Ship Plotter - Orkney > There is a picture on the wonderful Orkneycommunities site showing > something along these lines: > http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/imagelibrary/picture/number2594.asp?st=hamnavoe > > Better still is the link in one of the comments below the picture, showing > a movie of the boat leaving Hoy Sound: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhsBfNxWILg > > It was lovely on Tuesday though. > Cheers, > Steven > > --- Steven Heddle, Newington, Holm Road, Kirkwall, Orkney KW15 1PY > --- E: [email protected] W: http://www.stevenheddle.co.uk > --- T: 01856 877119 M: 07719 762165 F: 08714 335639 Skype: therealkw15 >