#4535437 - 09/01/20 08:45 AM
Re: you cant pay me enought to work on a ship (huge waves)
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Not for me, a life on the ocean waves. I was seasick in a rowing boat in a sheltered cove once. If I can see the horizon I'm okay, but i once took a channel Ferry to France at night on what was said to be the worst sea conditions for many years. I was holding down on passenger decks awash with vomit until I espied some French truckers downing Full English Breakfasts washed down with beer which triggered seemingly endless hurling...so much I'm sure i siphoned my underwear up through my alimentary canal. I was on my was to a Kendo tournament in Lyon, I had my Daisho with me (this was 1970!) and was so ill I was eyeing my wakizashi considering Seppuku, if I had had the strength to wield it.
Only a bad crossing on the now defunct Hovercraft service came close, but I could endure the 35 minutes travail without mishap, the the stewards did run out of sick-bags I was told.
All that North Sea wave power funnels into the narrow of the English Channel, making it one of the most dangerous of the busiest of sea ways. For that reason I'm sure if Germany had attempted an invasion of England in 1940, at night in converted and often towed inland water barges, neccesitating carrying 12,000 horses in the first wave as the Heer where not as mechanised as propaganda spouted, it would have been an unmitigated disaster that may have altered the course of the war.
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#4535439 - 09/01/20 09:09 AM
Re: you cant pay me enought to work on a ship (huge waves)
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Rogue waves have swallowed ships.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4535507 - 09/01/20 06:01 PM
Re: you cant pay me enought to work on a ship (huge waves)
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So you'd rather settle for conquering domed brazilian peaks and licking through winding crevices in brazilian valleys, than riding undulating waves eh?
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#4535514 - 09/01/20 06:25 PM
Re: you cant pay me enought to work on a ship (huge waves)
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I've never been to sea in a cruise ship so I don't know if I'd get sea-sick or not.
The closest I got was a trip in a 'Trent' Class lifeboat that ironically broke down about a mile out to sea. We had to return on one engine but it was still quite rapid.
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#4535520 - 09/01/20 07:26 PM
Re: you cant pay me enought to work on a ship (huge waves)
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I've never been to sea in a cruise ship so I don't know if I'd get sea-sick or not.
I've been on 3 cruises, only ever had one night that the sea was a bit rough and I quite enjoyed it. No water breaking over the bow however. My wife didn't care for it at all.
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