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
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 >