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Bad idea to take the calais - dover ferry thursday this week?


 
Posted : 12/12/2011 7:52 pm
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Potentially:


 
Posted : 12/12/2011 8:10 pm
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or for a more user friendly based prediction , with numbers.

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=96593

Bumpy .- Yes
People puking .- Yes
Delays .- Yes

Out on deck . . .****ing brilliant if you like extreame weather and crashing seas


 
Posted : 12/12/2011 8:21 pm
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Have you ever taken a cross channel ferry in windy weather? We went once at Easter, it wasn't even particularly windy and the place was like that scene from The Meaning of Life - in the case of the bogs I am seriously not joking. Being a boat there was a lip under the door of course so the entire floor was covered in puke to a depth of a few inches which slopped this way and that as the boat rolled. Matched by the puke in all the blocked sinks. Puke EVERYWHERE - on deck, on the floor in the lounges, everywhere.


 
Posted : 12/12/2011 8:25 pm
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Dover calais will be fine. I believe the phrase is mtfu 😉

I once went on the Santander to Plymouth ferry with a big storm going on in the bay of biscay and they asked us not to go on deck as there was a risk of waves washing over ! Decks of ferries are what, 45 ft above normal sea level.


 
Posted : 12/12/2011 8:56 pm
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We went once at Easter, it wasn't even particularly windy and the place was like that scene from The Meaning of Life -

You got boarded by the Crimson Permanent Insurance?


 
Posted : 12/12/2011 9:05 pm
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Phah, if they're running you'll be fine, if there're not you'll not be going anywhere sharpish.. Tried EuroStar/Chunnel..?

Most ferries are F11 rated, if it's that then they'll send the cargo ferries so long as it isn't X-On..

Food might just be free if it's bumpy..


 
Posted : 12/12/2011 10:00 pm